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Who shall face The blast that wakes the fury of the sea? * * * * * The vast hulks Are whirled like chaff upon the waves; the sails Fly, rent like webs of gossamer; the masts Are snapped asunder. - William Cullen Bryant An horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. - John Dryden Look, from the turbid south What floods of flame in red diffusion burst, Frequent and furious, darted thro' the dark And broken ridges of a thousand clouds, Pil'd hill on hill; and hark, the thunder rous'd, Groans in long roarings through the distant gloom. - David Mallet (originally Malloch) Meanwhile The sun, in his setting, sent up the last smile Of his power, to baffle the storm. And, behold! O'er the mountains embattled, his armies, all gold, Rose and rested: while far up the dim airy crags, Its artillery silenced, its banners in rags, The rear of the tempest its sullen retreat Drew off slowly, receding in silence, to meet The powers of the night, which, now gathering afar, Had already sent forward one bright, single star. - Owen Meredith (pseudonym of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton) There is war in the skies! Lo! the black-winged legions of tempest arise O'er those sharp splinter'd rocks that are gleaming below In the soft light, so fair and so fatal, as though Some seraph burn'd through them, the thunderbolt searching Which the black cloud unbosom'd just now. - Owen Meredith (pseudonym of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton) To create a tempest in a teapot. - Proverb To make waves in a cup. [Lat., Exitare fluctus in simpulo.] - Proverb I have seen tempests, when the scalding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaks; and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds; But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. - William Shakespeare The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. - William Shakespeare Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at III, ii) Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea, puft up with proud disdaine, To swell above the measure of his guise, As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise. - Edmund Spenser Along the woods, along the moorish fens, Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm; And up among the loose disjointed cliffs, And fractured mountains wild, the brawling brook And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening fancy's ear. - James Thomson (1) And sometimes too a burst of rain, Swept from the black horizon, broad, descends In one continuous flood. Still over head The mingling tempest weaves its gloom, and still The deluge deepens; till the fields around Lie sunk, and flatted, in the sordid wave. Sudden the ditches swell; the meadows swim. Red, from the hills, innumerable streams Tumultuous roar; and high above its banks The river lift; before whose rushing tide, Herds, flocks, and harvests, cottages, and swains, Roll mingled down; all that the winds had spar'd In one wild moment ruined; the big hopes And well-earned treasures of the painful year. - James Thomson (1) From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass Unbroken floods and solid torrents pour. - James Thomson (1)
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