I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

En vano te hemos prodigado el oce¤  ano, En vano el sol, que vieron los maravillados ojos de Whitman; Has gastado los an‹  os y te has gastado, Y todav|¤a no has escrito el poema. We have lavished the ocean on you in vain, In vain the sun that was seen by Whitman's astounded eyes; You have spent your years and you have spent yourself, But you haven't written the poem yet.

-Borges,Jorge Luis
  El otro, el mismo,'Mateo XX V, 30' ('Matthew 25:30').

Now Sark rins o'er the Solway sands, An' Tweed rins to the ocean, To mark where England's province stands, Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

-Burns, Robert
  'Such a parcel of rogues in a nation', stanza1.

Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza13.

As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.2.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

-Gerhardie,William Alexander
  Polyglots, ch.14.

She hears the ocean protesting against separation, but she hears the sea protesting against union. She follows therefore her physical destination when she protests against the two situations, both equally unnaturalö separation and union.

-Grattan, Henry
Of Ireland. Quoted in Conor Cruise O'Brien Parnell and His Party (1957).

Full manya gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full manya flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.52^6.

We are†a one-and-a-half ocean navy with a three- ocean commitment.

-Hayward,Thomas Bibb
  Congressional testimony, reported in the NewYork Times, 11  Apr.

Oceanracing islikestandingundera coldshower tearing up »5 notes.

-Hearst,William Randolph
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The movie-makers are able to put more reality into a picture about theterrors of life at the ocean bottom than into a tale of two Milwaukeeans in love.

-Hecht, Ben
  In news reports,13  Jun.

From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast, Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host, Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia!

-How,WilliamWalsham
  'For  All the Saints', in Earl Nelson Hymns for Saints' Days.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  A  Tract on Monetary Reform.

Oui, quel est le plus profond, le plus impe¤  ne¤  trable des deux: l'oce¤  an ou le c½ur humain? What is deeper, more impenetrable: the ocean or the human heart?

-Lautre¤  amont, Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse
  Les Chants de Maldoror, pt.1.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Tales of a Wayside Inn, pt.3.'The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth'.

Mairg an t-so' i l a ch |' air fairge ian mo¤ r  marbh na h-albann. Pity the eye that sees on the ocean the great dead bird of Scotland.

-MacLean, Sorley Gaelic name Somhairle MacGill-Eain
  'An t-Eilean','The Island'.

I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl. 552

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

How am I glutted with conceit of this! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocea'  n, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charme'  d wave.

-Milton,John
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 3.

Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.165^73.