“She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
Source: Books of Blood: Volume Two
“In her sepulcher there by the sea —
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
St. 6.
Annabel Lee (1849)
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Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumque
ut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credant
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Or steps leading into the sea.”
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Source: Renascence and Other Poems
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
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“Broad-based upon her people’s will,
And compass'd by the inviolate sea.”
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