"Cloudlike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feeling, for my weary life, the need Of that dear nourishment Death rudely stole, Leaving the world all bare, and sad my soul, From time to time fair pleasures pall, my sweet To bitter turns, fear rises, and hopes fail, My course, though brief, that I shall e'er complete: Cloudlike before the gale, To win some resting-place from rest I flee, —If such indeed my doom, so ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
... kindly genius of the scene; The river, bending in unbroken grace, The stately thickets, with their pathways green, Fair lonely trees, each in its fittest place. Those thickets haunted by the deer and fawn; Those cloudlike flights of birds across the lawn; The gentlest breezes here delight to blow, And sun and shower and star are emulous to ...
— Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller
... gaze to rest From out beneath her fast-sealed lids, Above her moving breast, On Ann, as quite, quite still she stood; Yet slumber lay so deep Even her hands upon her lap Seemed saturate with sleep. And as Ann peeped, a cloudlike dread Stole over her, and then, On stealthy, mouselike feet she ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various
... clear, dark night, there can be seen in different parts of the sky closely aggregated groups of stars called clusters. In some instances the component stars are so near together that the naked eye is unable to discern the individual members of the cluster. They then assume an indistinct, hazy, cloudlike appearance. Upwards of 500 clusters are known to astronomers, the majority of which are very remote. Many of them contain thousands of stars compressed into a very small space, and others are so distant that the largest telescopes are incapable ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard |
