Air Quote by William C. Bryant

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency…

— Salman Rushdie

“Snow-flakes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“At the edge of heaven, tatters of autumn Cloud. After ten thousand miles of clear Lovely morning, the west wind arrives. Here, Long rains…

— Tu Fu

“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty…

— mary oliver

“How now, spirit! whither wander you? FAIRY Over hill, over dale, Through bush, through brier, Over park, over pale, Through flood, through fire, I…

— William Shakespeare

Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet…

— Hartley Coleridge

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely…

— Robert Bridges

The speckled sky is dim with snow, The light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery…

— John Townsend Trowbridge

“The snow here hadn't thawed. Its large, rough crystals were filled with the blue of the lake-water. But on the sunny side of the…

— Vasily Grossman

“At noontime in midsummer, when the sun is at its highest and everything is in a state of embroiled repose, flashes may be seen…

— Johannes V. Jensen