Eyes of the Ocean

Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast-- -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ghastly Crew

They raised their limbs like lifeless tools-- We were a ghastly crew. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798

Fields Laid Bare

Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste, An'weary winter comin'fast, -Robert Burns, To a Mouse, 1785

Etheral Flames

Yet am not I deterr'd, though high the theme, And sung to harps of angels, for with you, Ethereal flames! ambitious, I aspire In Nature's general symphony to join. -James Thomson, A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, 1727

The Flathouse Roof

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line. -Nathalia Crane, The Flathouse Roof

Two Moons

Secure, with only two moons listening, Until the whole harmonious landscape rang -Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood's Party