 The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!  The Pleasures of Life Complete - Page 257by Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1893 - 642 pages
...which precedes it: — AH heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathleai, until From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now bath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! — not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue ; And Jura answers, through... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among. Leaps the live thunder ! not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - 454 pages
...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her... | |
 | 1837 - 658 pages
...is sensual delight ? Take Byron's description of a thunder-storm amidst the Alps; when " Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue ; And Jura answers, from her... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 pages
...are wond'rous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud. Bui ever\ mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers tbro' her mistv... | |
 | 1850 - 44 pages
...night! And storm and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath/owmrf a tongue, And Jura answers, through her... | |
 | Washington State Bar Association - 1913 - 728 pages
...finest ideas to my mind is Byron's description of a thunderstorm in the Alps where the great bard says: 'From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, leaps the live thunder.' " His friend replied : "Yes, pretty; almost equal to the words of Habakkuk: 'He stood and measured... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - 1990 - 316 pages
...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pages
...Byron describes a nocturnal storm in the Alps with a glee not matched until Tyndall: "Far along, / From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, / Leaps the live thunder!" (lines 863-5). The deistic "let me quit man's works, again to read / His Maker's spread around me"... | |
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