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Tides: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 174.

Are there no stones in heaven But what serve for the thunder?— Shakespeare — Othello. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 234.

The thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pro nounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass.— Shakespeare — Tempest. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 97.

To stand against the deep, dread-bolted thunder? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning?— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 33.

All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb, Counting the slow, sad moments of her pain; Now morn has come, And with the morn the punctual tide again.— SUSAN COOLIDGE — Flood-Tide:

The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.— SUSAN COOLIDGE — On the Shore.

Love has a tide!— HELEN HUNT JACKSON — Verses. Tides.

The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see The rolling mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she. S.— CHARLES KINGSLEY — The Sands o' Dee. St. 2.

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.— LONGFELLOW — The Tides.

The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; * * * * * * The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. и.— LONGFELLOW — The Tide Rises, the

Tide Falls. Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.— TUSSER — Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie. Ch. XIV. St. 5.