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Oh! what a snug little Island,
A right little, tight little Island!
(Thomas Dibdin (1771-1841), British actor, playwright. The Snug Little Island (1833).)
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The greenest island of my imagination.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. letter, Nov. 17, 1816, to poet Thomas Moore. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 5, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).)
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Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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I'm mooring my rowboat
at the dock of the island called God.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Rowing Endeth.")
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Not once or twice in our rough island story
The path of duty was the way to glory.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, st. 8 (1852).)
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... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. For Love Alone, ch. 16 (written 1944, published Virago, n.d.).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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Not once or twice in our rough island-story
The path of booty was the way to glory.
(Anonymous.)
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"Our island home
Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam."
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. The Lotus-Eaters (l. 44-45). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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In that whiter Island, where
Things are evermore sincere;
Candor here, and lustre there
Delighting:
(Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. The White Island; or, The Place of the Best (l. 9-12). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Rambures, in Henry V, act 3, sc. 7, l. 140-2.)
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