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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? - Aristophanes, Clouds, (Gerard's translation) That look'd As though an angel, in his upward flight, Had left his mantle floating in mid-air. - Joanna Baillie Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. - James Beattie, Ministrel (bk. I) Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. - Bible, I Corinthians (ch. X, v. 1) And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. - Bible, I Kings (ch. XVIII, v. 44) Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CIV, v. 2-5) I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one. - John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, I Saw Two Clouds at Morning Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. - Robert Seymour Bridges, Elegy--The Cliff Top--A Cloud Cloud-walls of the morning's gray Faced with amber column, Crowned with crimson cupola From a sunset solemn. May-mists, for the casements, fetch, Pale and glimmering, With a sunbeam hid in each, And a smell of spring. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please, Or let the easily persuaded eyes Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould Of a friend's fancy. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fancy in Nubibus Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining. - Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Mrs. A.L. Felkin), Wisdom of Folly When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. - Nathaniel Hawthorne The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep. - Victor Hugo, The Vanished City Those clouds are angels' robes.--That fiery west Is paved with smiling faces. - Charles Kingsley 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, Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. V, l. 145) By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo (pt. II, 2) But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water. - Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology--Isaiah Beethoven They are fair resting-places For the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? - John Milton, Comus (l. 22) There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. - John Milton, Comus (l. 223) So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. - John Milton, Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 490) If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. - Old Rhyme, Old Weather Rhyme When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. - Old Rhyme, Old Weather Rhyme Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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