James Flecker Quotes (8 Quotes)

It was so old a ship - who knows, who knows And yet so beautiful, I watched in vain To see the mast burst open with a rose And the whole deck put on its leaves again.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through.

Neon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town, Beauty she was statue cold - there's blood upon her gown.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars.

And with great lies about his wooden horse Set the crew laughing and forgot his course.

For one night or the other night Will come the Gardener in white, and gathered flowers are dead, Yasmin.

Read out my words at night, alone I was a poet, I was young

When the great markets by the sea shut fast All that calm Sunday that goes on and on When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.