Air Quote by Mark Akenside

The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having…

— Lucretius

Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale…

— Li Bai

When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Bathed in shades of violet, she comes in the dark. Power unrecognized, half human, half mar. Born in lightning, anointed in tears, Magic abounds,…

— Tracy Deebs

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

— Horace

A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence…

— Robert Montgomery

“it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of…

— Mark Twain

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and…

— Robert Jordan