Famous quotes containing the words north, atlantic and/or deep:
“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“Obscurest night involvd the sky,
Th Atlantic billows roard,
When such a destind wretch as I,
Washd headlong from on board,
Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
His floating home for ever left.”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
The only son is dead.
But the mother needs to be better,
She with thin form presently drest in black,
By day her meals untouchd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep longing,
O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and
withdraw,
To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)