The tidal wave of deepest souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave. [ Bailey ]
Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]
When one is past, another care we have;
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. [ Robert Herrick ]
Wave rolling after wave in torrent rapture. [ Milton ]
Take up the torch and wave it wide,
The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom. [ Bonar ]
Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]
Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing--
A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing. [ J. Pardoe ]
Within a bony, labyrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and mystic sense is found,
Muse, that presides over all the powers of sound. [ Abraham Coles ]
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]
What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]
The fortune is insecure that is at the mercy of wind and wave. [ Gutzkow ]
A breaking wave is most beautiful in the moment of its dissolution. [ T. E. Neuhof ]
Hope is a lure. There is no hand that can retain a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. [ Tennyson ]
Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. [ Horace ]
Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. [ Ovid ]
If the wave could speak in any other language than that of its own harsh thunder, how many tales of agony and suffering might it unfold. [ Selkirk ]
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. [ Coleridge ]
For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism. [ Thoreau ]
A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]
Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the mind and opinion of the age. [ Daniel Webster ]