WIND.
Yet true it is, as cow chews cud,
And trees, at spring, do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.
The Properties of Winds. T. TUSSER.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
King Henry VI., Pt. III. Act ii. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
Pure was the temperate air, an even calm
Perpetual reigned, save what the zephyrs bland
Breathed o'er the blue expanse.
Seasons: Spring. J. THOMSON.
Under the yaller-pines I house,
When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,
An' hear among their furry boughs
The baskin' west-wind purr contented.
Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. X. J.R. LOWELL.
A breeze came wandering from the sky,
Light as the whispers of a dream;
He put the o'erhanging grasses by,
And softly stooped to kiss the stream,
The pretty stream, the flattered stream,
The shy, yet unreluctant stream.
The Wind and the Stream. W.C. BRYANT.
As winds come whispering lightly from the West,
Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.
Childe Harold, Canto II. LORD BYRON.
The moaning winds of autumn sang their song.
A Sicilian Story. B.W. PROCTER (Barry Cornwall).
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea,
Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains,
Draughts of life to me.
The North Wind. D.M. MULOCK CRAIK.
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
A Day of Sunshine. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
In winter when the dismal rain
Came down in slanting lines,
And wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines.
A Life Drama. A. SMITH.
'T was when the sea was roaring
With hollow blasts of wind.
The What d' ye Call 't. J. GAY.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
The Lord descended from above
And bowed the heavens high;
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.
On cherubs and on cherubims
Full royally he rode;
And on the wings of all the winds
Came flying all abroad.
Hymns: Psalm CIV. T. STERNHOLD.