Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or girt:
“Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs.
Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows,
Tower suddenly, spray-haired.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)