Posts Tagged: boats
How to build that ship?
On July 4, 2016
- Transport
“This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main, —
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.”
(O.W. Holmes in The chambered nautilus)
Liège (B)
Breeze of words
On September 27, 2015
- Culture of Industry
"Sweet breeze of secret words, which, penetrating through my ears to my heart woke Love, who was sleeping there ..." (Anonymous, Aura soave; English by J.G. Paton) Brussel (B)
Boulder for a confused ship
On May 4, 2014
- Still Life
“Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin’
Like the stillness in the wind
’Fore the hurricane begins
The hour when the ship comes in.”
(Bob Dylan in When the ship comes in)
Lanaken (B)
The sleeping boat
On February 9, 2014
- Landscapes
"My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ..."
(P.B. Shelley in Prometheus unbound)
Angleur (B)
Row me a boat
On December 26, 2013
- Street Scenes
“The water is wide an’ I can’t cross over
Neither have I wings to fly
Build me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my love an’ I.”
(Bob Dylan in The water is wide)
Liège (B)