Oceans

“Rich and various gems inlayThe unadorned bosom of the deep.”

“He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane,"And played familiar with his hoary locks.”

“The ocean and the wind and the stars and the moon will all teach you many things.”

“Ocean into tempest wrought,To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.”

“Alone I walked on the ocean strand, And washed my lines away.”

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”

“Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, For the lovely land."”

“He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.”

“Past are three summers since she first beheldIs this the mighty ocean? is this all?”

“But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue;And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.”

“The land is dearer for the sea,The ocean for the shore.”

“Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.”

“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful faceTime's iron feet can print no ruin trace.”

“A life on the ocean wave! And the winds their revels keep!”

“The always wind-obeying deep.”

“Thou wert before the Continents, beforeAntiquity was young when thou wast old.”

“We follow and race Who shall behold it run?”

“I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; Tales of ships.”

“Rocked in the cradle of the deep,I lay me down in peace to sleep.”

“In chambers deep,What unknown treasures pave the floor.”

“A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.”

“You know, the ocean’s the biggest damned snowflake ever? It rolls and swells a thousand shapes and colors, no two alike.”

“That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Of the great tomb of man.”

“Once more upon the waters! yet once more!That knows his rider.”

“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!Stops with the shore.”

“Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”

“The image of Eternity—the throneObeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.”

“And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joyAnd laid my hand upon thy mane—as I do here.”

“There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in,Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.”

“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”