"In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears; Not let His eye See sin, but through my tears."

"Love’s tongue is in the eyes."

"Poorly (poor man) he lived; poorly (poor man) he died."

"His little son into his bosom creeps, The lively picture of his father’s face."

"Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter."

"The coward’s weapon, poison."

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"