"Harbourage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Venus, and all Cupids wail, And men whose gentler spirits still prevail. Dead is the Sparrow of my girl, the joy, Sparrow, my sweeting's most delicious toy, Whom loved she dearer than her very eyes; 5 For he was honeyed-pet and anywise Knew her, as even she her mother knew; Ne'er from her bosom's harbourage he flew But 'round her hopping here, there, everywhere, Piped he to none but her his lady fair. 10 Now must he wander o'er the darkling way Thither, whence life-return the Fates denay. But ah! beshrew you, evil Shadows low'ring In Orcus ever ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... that find harbourage, The phantom of a crime stalks this beside, And those might well have writ on some past page, In such an hour, of such a year, we—died, Put out our souls, took the mean way, false wage, Course cowardly; and if we be denied ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... then she had resigned herself to this sort of savage tenderness which was better in its very brutality than any caress she had ever known, which thrilled her with a glorious joy such as, she realised now, she had dreamt of and lacked, and wanted; which was a harbourage to which she came, blushing, confused—but glad, conquered, and happy in the thrall of that ...
— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer
... old-time harbourage installed, Lulled by the murmurous hum of London's traffic To that full calm which may ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)
... from the margin of high tide, reluctant to see themselves in the water, for fear of the fate of Narcissus. But where that clandestine boat had glided into gloom and greyness, a fosse of Nature's digging, deeply lined with wood and thicket, offered snug harbourage to craft and fraud. ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore |
