| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. |
| Aristophanes | Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? |
| Bible | 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 | 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. |
| Edgar Lee Masters | But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water. |
| 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 | By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. |
| James Beattie | Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. |
| John Milton | Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? |
| John Milton | There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. |
| John Milton | So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. |
| John Milton | The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. |
| Old Rhyme | If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. |
| Old Rhyme | When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea. |
| Robert Seymour Bridges | Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 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. |
| Thomas Love Peacock | Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. |
| Victor Hugo | The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep. |
| William Shakespeare | Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale. Very like a whale. |
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