We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies,... Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine: 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or some northerly harbor of Labrador,... before he became a schoolteacher a great-uncle painted a big picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou, with dewy locks, who lookest down Through the clear windows of the morning; turn... Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nearing again the legendary isle Where sirens sang and mariners were skinned,... We wonder now what was there to beguile That such stout fellows left their bones behind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
SWEENEY: I'll carry you off To a cannibal isle.... DORIS: You'll be the cannibal! SWEENEY: You'll be the missionary! I'll gobble you up. I'll be the cannibal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of ...the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »