“Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o’er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. Thomas Campbell
““God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look’st thou so?”—“With my crossbow I shot the Albatross.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Goodbye, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.Joseph Conrad
“Half owre, half owre to Aberdour,’Tis fifty fathoms deep; And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, Wi’ the Scots lords at his feet! Anonymous: Ballads
“And I’m never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What, never? Hardly ever! He’s hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore! Sir William S. Gilbert