Islands

Cyprus Island from space

Islands are sub-continental landforms that are surrounded by water.

Quotes

• Fast-anchor'd isle.
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II. The Timepiece, line 151.

• Your isle, which stands
  As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in
  With rocks unscalable, and roaring waters.
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 1, line 18.

• Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835; 1842), 164.

• 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.
  • James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,597.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 401-02.

• From the sprinkled isles,
  Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
  • Robert Browning, Clean.

• Beautiful isle of the sea,
  Smile on the brow of the waters.
  • George Cooper, song.

• O, it's a snug little island!
  A right little, tight little island!
  • Thomas Dibdin, The Snug Little Island.

• 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.
  • John Keble, The Christian Year, The First Sunday in Advent, Stanza 8.

• Ay, many flowering islands lie
  In the waters of wide Agony.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines written among the Euganean Hills, line 66.

• 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.
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, Insularum Ocelle.