"Cloudlike" Quotes from Famous Books
... in the light of one Returned. 'Will this be strange to me that day? Flocks of green parrots clamorous in the sun Tearing out milky maize—stiff cacti grey As old men's beards—here stony ranges lone, Their dust of mighty flocks upon their way To water, cloudlike on the bush afar, Like smoke that hangs where ... — Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... lengthens o'er my brain And peoples all its pictures with thyself; Gone, not forgotten; passed, not lost; thou wilt shine In heaven like a bright spot in the sun! She said she wished to die, and so she died, For, cloudlike, she poured out her love, which was Her life, to freshen this parched heart. It was thus; I said we were to part, but she said nothing; There was no discord; it was music ceased, Life's thrilling, bursting, bounding joy. She sate, ... — Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... astronomer who would profess to say with certainty whether the smallest stars we can photograph are at the boundary of the system. Before we decide this point we must have some idea of the form and distance of the cloudlike masses of stars which form our great celestial girdle. A most curious fact is that our solar system seems to be in the centre of this galactic universe, because the Milky Way divides the heavens into two equal parts, ... — Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb |