Clouds Quotes

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I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas… — Edward E. Barnard
I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy.… — Robert Loveman
The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west... — Robert Loveman
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,â€” You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat....… — James Russell Lowell
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His… — James Russell Lowell
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to… — William Shakespeare
The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in… — Charles Dickens
It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper… — Charles Dickens
It was a murky confusion â€” here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel â€” of flying… — Charles Dickens
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricityâ€”like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when… — John Burroughs
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold. — Walter Scott
A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing… — Washington Irving
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that… — Virginia Woolf
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh,… — Thomas Carlyle

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