The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.

Robert Browning
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More Quotes By Robert Browning
  1. How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  2. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  3. My sun sets to rise again.

  4. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

  5. Love is the energy of life.

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