„God Bless America"
God Bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore.
Dewar Lord 1864-1930
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lang Andrew 1844-1912
‘The Odyssey'
They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
Tales of a Wayside Inn ‘Elizabeth'
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
Doctor Faustus
O soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found:
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.
Montgomery Robert 1807-1855
The Omnipresence of the Deity
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
Morris William 1834-1896
Chants for Socialists ‘March of the Workers'
What is this, the sound and rumour? What is this that all men hear,
Like the wind hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near,
Like the rolling on of ocean in the eventide of fear?
‘Tis the people marching on.
Newton Sir Isaac 1642-1727
O don't know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Proverbs and Sayings
Dutch
God made the ocean, but the Dutch made Holland.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Comedy of Errors
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Sonnet 64
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the Kingdom of the shore.
Waller Edmund 1606-1687
‘Of a War with Spain'
Others may use the ocean as their road,
Only the English make it their abode.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘Lines composed ... above Tintern Abbey'
And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts,
And rolls through all things.