"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, in the ebb and flow of the tides; in the folded…"

"Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication. You can't explain that."

"All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb, Counting the slow, sad moments of her pain; Now mo…"

"The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray."

"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 cou…"

"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 …"

"The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; * * * * * * The little waves, with their soft…"

"That centre was the Mediterranean; which was not so much a piece of water as a world. But it was a world with somethi…"

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull’d by the coil of his crystàlli…"

"At certain periods of the evening and the morning the blue of the Mediterranean surpasses all conception or descripti…"