Navy Blue Border

Famous quotes containing the words navy, blue and/or border:

    “I call to mind the navy great
    That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
    And how the boistous winds did beat
    Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
    Till Agamemnon’s daughter’s blood
    Appeased the gods that them withstood.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    “I have just come down from my father.
    Higher and higher he lies
    Above me in a blue light
    Shed by a tinted window.”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    ““Although our love is waning, let us stand
    By the lone border of the lake once more,
    Together in that hour of gentleness
    When the poor tired child, Passion, falls asleep....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)