 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts,...opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling : peal on peal... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1865 - 116 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, ' 25 And opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze Follows the loosened... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1867 - 444 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts...wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze." The thunder seems to divide one flash from another, interposing its deepening roar... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts,...wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. mo Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on... | |
 | James Thomson - 1869 - 178 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, 1135 The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till over head a sheet Of livid...flame discloses wide : then shuts, And opens wider; sh-its anti i-pens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a Maze. 1 140 F iIlows the li-nsi-m'd aggravated... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till, overhead, a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts...opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze : Follows the loosened, aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on... | |
 | A. P. A. - Acrostics - 1869 - 226 pages
...And never looks behind ; And sings a solitary song, That whistles in the wind." 1 . " Till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts,...wider — shuts and opens, still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze." 2. '' A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintain'd... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts,...wider; shuts and opens, still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze : Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...burden on the wind, , The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide : then shuts,...wider ; shuts and opens still • Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd, aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...nearer comee. And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till over head a sheet Of livid...discloses wide; then shuts, And opens wider; shuts anil opens still Expansive, wrapping aether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Knlarging,... | |
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And following slower, in explosion vast, The Thunder raises his tremendous voice. At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The tempest growls ; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve,... 
