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The unquiet republic of the maze of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (pt. IV) I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (IV, 3) Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Summer (l. 150) The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation. - Henry David Thoreau, from Thoreau's journal Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Georgics (I, 487) Green calm below, blue quietness above. - John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (st. 113) The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witching of the soft blue sky! - William Wordsworth, Peter Bell (pt. I, st. 15) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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