The king sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine; 'O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?'

-Ballads
'Sir Patrick Spens', opening lines.

The ship's ignored.The iceberg rises and sinks again; its glassy pinnacles correct elliptics in the sky. This is a scene where he who treads the boards is artlessly rhetorical.

-Bishop, Elizabeth
  'The Imaginary Iceberg'.

Proves she like some portent of an iceberg Swimming full upon the ship it founders Hungry with huge teeth of splintered crystals?

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza17.

What is a ship but a prison?

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.2, section 3, member 4, subsection1.

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West!

-Dodgson
  The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the Second:  The Bellman's Speech'.

As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

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

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, pervert and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden lightthat showsneworderand beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

-Cornforth, SirJohnWarcup
  Nobel prize speech.

President Bush†seems to think that the ship [of state] will be saved by imperceptible undercurrents, directed by the invisible hand of some cyclical economic god, that will gradually move the ship so that at the last moment it will miraculously glide past the rocks to safer shores.

-Cuomo, Mario Matthew
  Address nominating Bill Clinton as Democratic presidential candidate,15  Jul.

Matilda Briggs†was a ship which is associated with the giant ratof Sumatra, a story for whichtheworld isnot yet prepared.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,'The Sussex Vampire'.

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

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon'.

A ship inport issafe butthat'snot what ships are builtfor.

-Hopper, Grace Murray
   Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22  Jun.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned† A man in a jail has moreroom, better food, and commonly bettercompany.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,16 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

   There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the North-East Trade.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Long Trail'.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't noTen Commandments an'a man can raise a thirst.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit And the long journey towards oblivion† Have you built your ship of death,O have you?

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  'The Ship of Death'.

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetryand tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.

-Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair
  Babbitt, ch.3.

In an English ship, they say, it is poor grub, poor pay, and easy work; in an American ship, good grub, good pay, and hard work. And this is applicable to the working populations of both countries.

-Lombardi,Vince(ntThomas)
  The People of the Abyss, ch.20.

Thou, too, sail on,O Ship of State! Sail on,O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  The Seaside and Fireside,'The Building of the Ship', l.377^81.

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento.Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montan‹  a. Green how I love you green. Green wind.Green boughs. The ship on the sea and the horse on the mountain.

-Lorca, Federico Garc|¤  a
^7  Romance sona¤  mbulo.

The aloe seemed to ride†like a ship with the oars lifted. Bright moonlight hung upon the lifted oars like water, and on the green wave glittered the dew.

-Beauchamp
  Bliss and Other Stories,'Prelude'.