“A sonnet is a wave of melody
From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul.”
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) English literary critic and poet
from The Sonnets Voice (A Meterical Lesson by the Seashore).
“Fifty feet of mast lay in the heaving water, downed lines and shrouds holding it there.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 156
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