Stanza 1 <br class="br"> Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
“When the stormy winds do blow.”
Martin Parker (1624–1647) English ballad writer
Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow", Thomas Campbell, Ye Mariners of England.
“With equal rage, as when the southern wind,
Meeteth in battle strong the northern blast.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Canto IX, stanza 52 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“As a little skiff attached to a great ship, when the storm blows high, takes in her small share of the raging waters and tosses in the same south wind.”
Immensae veluti conexa carinae
cumba minor, cum saevit hiems, pro parte furentis
parva receptat aquas et eodem volvitur austro.
iv, line 120
Silvae, Book I
“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Symbol 8
The Symbols
“If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”
Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in The Essence of Zen : Zen Buddhism for Every Day and Every Moment (2002) by Mark Levon Byrne, p. 28.
Context: From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
There is a moment's pause.
If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.
“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“The first blow is half the battle.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer
Watch the Wind Blow By
Song lyrics, Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors (2002)
Joseph Stella (1877–1946) American artist
Joseph Stella (1911); Quoted in: Ruth L. Bohan. Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920, (2006). p. 193
