Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lightning--it is good for you. Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning. She has come down to you again....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the cross blue lightning seemed to open The breast of heaven, I did present myself... Even in the aim and very flash of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight.... It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,... Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry Th'affliction nor the fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.... I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, called you children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night,... That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The god of this great vast, rebuke these surges, Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou that hast... Upon the winds command, bind them in brass, Having called them from the deep! O, still Thy deaf'ning dreadful thunders, gently quench Thy nimble sulphurous flashes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had for some time seen a thunder-shower coming up from the west over the woods of the island.... As we lay huddled together und...er the tent,... we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard,--rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang, in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, "It must be good powder." All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes. I thought it must be a place which the thunder loved, where the lightning practiced to keep its hand in, and it would do no harm to shatter a few pines.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »