<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Boating - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple the sails, and so perfumed that   The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,    Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made     The water which they beat to follow faster,      As amorous of their strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat. Just parted from the shore,  And to the fisher's chorus-note,   Soft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat. Just parted from the shore,  And to the fisher's chorus-note,   Soft moves the dipping oar!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4398]]></link><description><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,   Or all the toil is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's face all unthankful graves   An arrowed scratch as with a tool of steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods on shore dim,   We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;    Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,     The rapids are near and the daylight's past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark   Break into a thousand gems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4406</guid></item></channel></rss>