Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) Persian philosopher
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
“An island-farm — broad seas of corn
Stirred by the wandering breath of morn —
The happy spot where I was born.”
Faces in the Fire (1860), st. 2
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
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Stirred by the wandering breath of morn —
The happy spot where I was born." by Lewis Carroll?
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
“The morn was fair, the skies were clear,
No breath came o'er the sea.”
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher
The Rose of Allandale, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Jules Verne book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
La mer est tout! Elle couvre les sept dixièmes du globe terrestre. Son souffle est pur et sain. C'est l'immense désert où l'homme n'est jamais seul, car il sent frémir la vie à ses côtés. La mer n'est que le véhicule d'une surnaturelle et prodigieuse existence; elle n'est que mouvement et amour.
Part I, ch. X: The Man of the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
“Christians, awake! salute the happy morn,
Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born.”
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
A Hymn for Christmas Day (1750)
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Look, Stranger, on This Island Now (1936), first published in book form in Look, Stranger! (1936; US title On this Island)
“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea
