There is a line in The West Rutland Marble Bawn that I like...
"The sound of his sledge on an iron wedge, like a shot when the trigger is drawn."

And then there's Woody Guthrie's...
"In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray."

When First I Came To Caledonia has a lovely image...
"If I had pens from Pennsylvania
And I had paper of snowy white
And I had ink from a rosy morning
A true love letter to you I'd write."

Many years ago, Patrick Sky remarked to me about
The Green Linnet that it was the only song in his experience thaat starts with the word "curiosity."
"Curiosity drove a young native of Erin
For to view the gay banks of the Nile."

All the best,
Dan Milner