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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Islands |
| From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o’erlace the sea. Robert Browning—Clean. | 1 |
| Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. Geo. Cooper—Song. | 2 |
| Fast-anchor’d isle. Cowper—The Task. Bk. II. The Timepiece. L. 151. | 3 |
| O, it’s a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! Thos. Dibdin—The Snug Little Island. | 4 |
| Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode. Keble—The Christian Year. The First Sunday in Advent. St. 8. | 5 |
| Your isle, which stands As Neptune’s park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable, and roaring waters. Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 18. | 6 |
| Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony. Shelley—Lines written among the Euganean Hills. L. 66. | 7 |
| Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark. Swinburne—Insularum Ocelle. | 8 |
| Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea. Tennyson—Locksley Hall. 164. | 9 |
| Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once the wonder, terror, and delight Of distant nations; whose remotest shore Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm; Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave. Thomson—Seasons. Summer. L. 1,597. | 10 |
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