Maiden Voyage April

Famous quotes containing the words maiden, voyage and/or april:

    “Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
    O sairer, sairer akes my head;
    And sairer, sairer ever will,
    The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.”
    —Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)

    “But where is laid the sailor John
    That so many lands had known,
    Quiet lands or unquiet seas
    Where the Indians trade or Japanese?
    He never found his rest ashore,
    Moping for one voyage more.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Summer of man its sunlight and its flower,
    Spring-time of man all April in a face.”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)