Ship Island

Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or island:

    “No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
    The ship was still as she could be;”
    —Robert Southey (1774–1843)

    “The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)