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Tag Name "Masts" (9)

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O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
Friedrich Schiller
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All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.
Henry Miller
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The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.
Paul Kingsnorth
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The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh
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The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.
Charles Dickens
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
Henry David Thoreau
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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Peter S. Beagle
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Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.
William Shakespeare