Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, 'Onward!'the sailors cry; Carry the lad that's born to be king Over the sea to Skye.

-Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin
  'Skye Boat Song'. The date and authorship of the original song are uncertain, but this is now the most famous version.

To love is to be a fish. My boat wallows in the sea. You who are free, rescue the dead.

-Ignatow, David
  Rescue the Dead,'Rescue the Dead'.

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci.

-Keats,John
  'Sleep and Poetry', l.85^9.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, 'Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are'.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

-Mizner,Wilson
  Of life in Hollywood. Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

Hardly one lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of virginalls in it.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Describing the chaos on theThames as people attempted to rescue their possessions from the flames. Diary entry, 2 Sep.

My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.5, l.72^4.

Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round about the prow she wrote The Lady of Shalott.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.4, l.123^6.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

-van den Berghe, Pierre L
'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).