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

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

"Blown, all alone, o’er the watery miles; Lost, I was tossed on those grape-laden isles."

"The sea, autumn mildness, islands bathed in light, fine rain spreading a diaphanous veil over the immortal nakedness …"

"The Ægean Sea waters two sides of Greece; first, the eastern side, extending from the promontory Sunium to the north …"

"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle…"

"When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could h…"

"The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know…"