--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges…" description: "\"The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.\" — A. E. Housman" image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png" --- # The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight… ![“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.” quote by A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png) > “The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.” [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. The speaker feels isolated under a stormy night, reflecting on loneliness and the passage of time. **In simple terms:** Nighttime loneliness under stormy skies. Key Takeaway Embrace solitude and reflect. Themes loneliness night nature reflection Mood melancholic contemplative Type poetic philosophical When to use this quote - night walks - storm watching - creative writing - meditation Key Concepts poetry existentialism solitude Questions to Reflect On - What does the storm symbolize? - How does solitude affect creativity? A Different Perspective May romanticize melancholy. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Lying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lying/) [Midnight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/midnight/) [Orion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/orion/) [Orion Plunges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/orion-plunges-4934237/) [Plunge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/plunge/) [Plunges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/plunges-1724067/) [Plunges Prone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/plunges-prone-4934240/) [Prone Midnight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/prone-midnight-4934239/) [Rainy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rainy/) [Rainy Pleiads](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rainy-pleiads-4934238/) [Strikes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/strikes/) ## Related quotes > [“The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-point-of-my-arrow-shifts-upward-i-release-the-string-and/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-e-turner/he-plunges-into-the-middle-of-them-and-it-is-a-frightening-thing-he/) [Nancy E. Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-e-turner/) > [Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/just-as-a-waterfall-grows-slower-and-more-lightly-suspended-as-it/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/the-diver-plunges-deep-to-find-pearls-and-we-must-accept-any-labor-or/) [Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/) > [A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yamamoto-tsunetomo/a-real-man-does-not-think-of-victory-or-defeat-he-plunges-recklessly-2/) [Yamamoto Tsunetomo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yamamoto-tsunetomo/) > [A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabeshima-naoshige/a-real-man-does-not-think-of-victory-or-defeat-he-plunges-recklessly/) [Nabeshima Naoshige](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabeshima-naoshige/) > [He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/he-unwittingly-takes-a-false-step-and-plunges-into-the-abyss/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/the-sceptic-when-he-plunges-into-the-depths-of-infidelity-like-the/) [Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/) > [Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/young-is-the-one-that-plunges-in-the-future-and-never-looks-back/) [Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/) > [“Ach, Hector, unser freundlicher Neandertaler." - Helen Hamilton”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-angelini/ach-hector-unser-freundlicher-neandertaler-helen-hamilton/) [Josephine Angelini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-angelini/) > [He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-armstrong/he-knows-enough-the-mariner-who-knows-where-lurk-the-shelves-and/) [John Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-armstrong/) > [“I’m really attracted to Orion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-angelini/i-m-really-attracted-to-orion/) [Josephine Angelini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-angelini/) > [Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eoin-colfer/holly-is-alive-thought-foaly-my-princess-lives-exulted-orion-and-we/) [Eoin Colfer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eoin-colfer/) > [“It was supposed to be Orion,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-angelini/it-was-supposed-to-be-orion/) [Josephine Angelini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-angelini/) > [When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/when-i-gaze-into-the-stars-they-look-down-upon-me-with-pity-from/) [Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/) ## More by A. E. Housman > [I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/i-think-that-to-transfuse-emotion-not-to-transmit-thought-but-to-set/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/clay-lies-still-but-blood-s-a-rover-breath-s-aware-that-will-not-keep/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/housman-is-one-of-my-heroes-and-always-has-been-he-was-a-detestable/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/on-occasions-after-drinking-a-pint-of-beer-at-luncheon-there-would-be/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [To justify God's ways to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/to-justify-god-s-ways-to-man/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/ten-thousand-times-i-ve-done-my-best-and-all-s-to-do-again/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/here-dead-lie-we-because-we-did-not-choose-to-live-and-shame-the-land/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/a-moment-s-thought-would-have-shown-him-but-a-moment-is-a-long-time/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/his-folly-has-not-fellow-beneath-the-blue-of-day-that-gives-to-man-or/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/on-wenlock-edge-the-wood-s-in-trouble-his-forest-fleece-the-wrekin/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/into-my-hear-an-air-that-kills-through-yon-far-country-blows-what-are/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > ['Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/tis-spring-come-out-to-ramble-the-hilly-brakes-around-for-under-thorn/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/if-a-man-will-comprehend-the-richness-and-variety-of-the-universe-and/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/malt-does-more-than-milton-can-to-justify-god-s-ways-to-man/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) > [I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/i-am-not-a-pessimist-but-a-pejorist-as-george-eliot-said-she-was-not/) [A. E. Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) [Explore all 81 A. E. Housman quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/) ## More Lying quotes > [There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/there-is-something-more-important-than-any-ultimate-weapon-that-is/) [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/) > [Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-clare/against-his-own-will-almost-will-felt-himself-understanding-he-would/) [Cassandra Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-clare/) > [Heaven lies around us in our infancy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-golding/heaven-lies-around-us-in-our-infancy/) [William Golding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-golding/) > [To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie/to-me-the-beauty-of-a-quilt-or-a-dress-lies-within-the-stitches-and/) [Natalie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie/) > [Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-addison/half-the-misery-of-human-life-might-be-extinguished-if-men-would/) [Joseph Addison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-addison/) > [Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-proctor/jobs-and-money-are-never-the-primary-cause-of-stress-thinking/) [Bob Proctor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-proctor/) > [“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/people-talk-about-books-that-write-themselves-and-it-s-a-lie-books/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [ \[Islam\] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abul-a-la-maududi/islam-leaves-no-room-of-human-legislation-in-an-islamic-state-because/) [Abul A'la Maududi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abul-a-la-maududi/) > [What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-cocteau/what-is-history-after-all-history-is-facts-which-become-lies-in-the/) [Jean Cocteau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-cocteau/) > [If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-siebel-newsom/if-the-media-is-sending-girls-the-message-that-their-value-lies-in/) [Jennifer Siebel Newsom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-siebel-newsom/) > [I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrilyn-kenyon/i-just-can-t-nick-okay-now-please-give-me-a-second-to-lie-here-in/) [Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrilyn-kenyon/) > [ The social \[media channel\] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umair-haque/the-social-media-channel-isn-t-about-beauty-contests-and-popularity/) [Umair Haque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umair-haque/) > [falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-burney/falsehood-is-not-more-unjustifiable-than-unsafe/) [Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-burney/) > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-beecher-stowe/it-lies-around-us-like-a-cloud-a-world-we-do-not-see-yet-the-sweet/) [Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-beecher-stowe/) [Browse all 13,166 Lying quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lying/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "A. E. Housman" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-prone-and-midnight-strikes-and/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lying" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-prone-and-midnight-strikes-and/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/a-e-housman-8360_lying_the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-p_3028198.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.” — A. E. Housman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "A. E. Housman", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-e-housman/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-prone-and-midnight-strikes-and/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-e-housman/the-rainy-pleiads-wester-orion-plunges-prone-and-midnight-strikes-and/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```