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God's glowing covenant.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: MS. Sermons
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And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high,
The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 30)
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'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 122)
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Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what thou art.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: To the Rainbow
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Over her hung a canopy of state,
Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,
But of a substance, though not animate,
Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,
That only eyes of spirits might behold.
Author: Giles Fletcher ("The Younger")
Source: The Rainbow (l. 33)
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O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light!
There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;
Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.
And, bending thee above, the angels draw near,
And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow!
The smile of God is here."
Author: Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale
Source: Poems
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God loves an idle rainbow,
No less than laboring seas.
Author: Ralph Hodgson
Source: Three Poems (II)
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven;
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.
Author: John Keats
Source: Lamia (pt. II, l. 231)
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Pride of the dewy morning,
The swain's experienced eye
From thee takes timely warning.
Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.
- John Keble,
Author: John Keble
Source: Christian Year--(25th Sunday after Trinity)--On the Rainbow
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A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shepherd's delight.
Author: Old Rhyme
Source: Old Weather Rhyme
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What skilful limner e'er would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: Marmion (canto VI, st. 5)
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Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the south melting.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: Sonnets--The Evening Rainbow
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Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Idylls of the King--The Coming of Arthur (l. 401)
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Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West,
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!
In hues of ancient promise there imprest;
Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.
Author: Charles Tennyson Turner
Source: Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces--The Rainbow
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Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie
Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye!
When I behold thee, though my light be dim,
Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him
Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne,
And minds the covenant between all and One.
Author: Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist")
Source: The Rainbow
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