VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise.

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.

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.

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.

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

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.

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.

The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water.

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.

When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.