"Aery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lightning can I flye About this aery welkin soone; And, in a minute's space, descrye Each thing ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... Shrewd was that snatch from out the corner South He graced his carrion with, God curse the same! Yet still my niche is not so cramped but thence 20 One sees the pulpit o' the epistle-side, And somewhat of the choir, those silent seats, And up into the aery dome where live The angels, and a sunbeam's sure to lurk: And I shall fill my slab of basalt there, 25 And 'neath my tabernacle take my rest, With those nine columns round me, two and two, The odd one at my feet where Anselm stands: Peach-blossom marble all, the rare, the ripe As fresh-poured red ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning |
