Cloudy Quote by Alfred Noyes Download Open image “The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.” — Alfred Noyes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cloudy Moon Seas Tossed
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. — Alfred Noyes Copy Share
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It was one of those warm, still, almost tropical nights, so rarely seen on the northern waters, when a profound calm reigns in the moonless heavens, and the hush of absolute repose rests upon the tired, storm-vexed sea. There was not the faintest breath of air to stir even the reef-points of the motionless sails, or roughen the dark, polished… — George Kennan Copy Share
“Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and tickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island. The… — William Golding Copy Share
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you. — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“And still on a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun. — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.” — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy. — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think that just because I'm trans, and I feel like I have to prove to people that I'm a woman sometimes, I'm never… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much. — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic. — Kate Flannery Copy Share Image
