GIGA THE MOST EXTENSIVE
COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
Home
Page
GIGA
Quotes
Biographical
Name Index
Chronological
Name Index
Topic
List
Reading
List
Site
Notes
Crossword
Solver
Anagram
Solver
Subanagram
Solver
LexiThink
Game
Anagram
Game
TOPICS:           A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z 
PEOPLE:     #    A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z 

RAINBOWS
  Displaying page 1 of 2    Next Page >> 
[ Also see Clouds Nature Rain Sky Storms Sun Weather ]

God's glowing covenant.
      - Hosea Ballou, MS. Sermons

And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high,
  The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
      - James Beattie, The Minstrel
         (bk. I, st. 30)

Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness.
  It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out.
      - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha)
         (ch. XLIII, v. 11-12)

'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
  From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
    The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
        Don Juan (canto I, st. 122)

Faithful to its sacred page. Heaven stills rebuilds thy span.
      - Thomas Campbell

Triumphant arch, that fill'st the sky when storms prepare to part!
      - Thomas Campbell

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
  When storms prepare to part,
    I ask not proud Philosophy
      To teach me what thou art.
      - Thomas Campbell, To the Rainbow

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
      - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The smiling daughter of the storm.
      - Charles Caleb Colton

Over her hung a canopy of state,
  Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,
    But of a substance, though not animate,
      Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,
        That only eyes of spirits might behold.
      - Giles Fletcher ("The Younger"),
        The Rainbow (l. 33)

O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light!
  There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;
    Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.
      And, bending thee above, the angels draw near,
        And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow!
          The smile of God is here."
      - Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale, Poems

God loves an idle rainbow,
  No less than laboring seas.
      - Ralph Hodgson, Three Poems (II)

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven;
  We know her woof, her texture; she is given
    In the dull catalogue of common things.
      Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.
      - John Keats (1), Lamia (pt. II, l. 231)

Pride of the dewy morning,
  The swain's experienced eye
    From thee takes timely warning.
      Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.
      - John Keble,
        Christian Year--(25th Sunday after Trinity)--On the Rainbow

God's illumined promise.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Conspicuous with three listed colors gay, betokening peace from God, and covenant new.
      - John Milton

A rainbow in the morning
  Is the Shepherd's warning;
    But a rainbow at night
      Is the Shepherd's delight.
      - Old Rhyme, Old Weather Rhyme

Born of the shower, and colored by the sun.
      - Jean Charles Prince

What skilful limner e'er would choose
  To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
    Unless to mortal it were given
      To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
      - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
         (canto VI, st. 5)

Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er
  Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
    Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers
      Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers;
        And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
          My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down,
            Rich scarf to my proud earth.
      - William Shakespeare

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
  Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
    Each in the south melting.
      - Robert Southey,
        Sonnets--The Evening Rainbow

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
      - Lord Alfred Tennyson,
        Idylls of the King--The Coming of Arthur
         (l. 401)

Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud,
  Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow
    Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds,
      In fair proportion, running from the red
        To where the violet fades into the sky.
      - James Thomson (1)

Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West,
  The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!
    In hues of ancient promise there imprest;
      Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.
      - Charles Tennyson Turner,
        Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces--The Rainbow

When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair,
  Forms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air;
    Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours
      Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers.
        Bright pledge of peace and sunshine!
      - Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist")


Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic:   Next >>  [1] 2

The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner.
Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved.
Last Revised: 2018 December 9




Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.


Click > HERE < to report errors