 | Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar. Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal, Crushed, horrible, convulsing... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1906 - 526 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts...peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain ; wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 338 pages
...Lightnings flash a larger Curve, and more The Noise astounds: till over Head a Sheet «30 Of livid Flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider, shuts...Roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, Peal on Peal "35 Crush'd horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth. Down comes a Deluge of sonorous Hail, D Or prone-descending... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 516 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds, till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider, shuts...opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal Crushed horrible,... | |
 | 1908
...Lightnings flash a larger Curve, and more The Noise astounds: till, over Head, a Sheet 765 Of various Flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider, shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping JEther in a Blaze. Follows the loosen 'd, aggravated Roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, Peal on... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 516 pages
...curve, and more The noise astounds, till overhead a sheet Ofjivid flame discloses wide, then shuts And_ opens wider, shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal Crushed horrible,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1918
...lightenings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts And opens wider; shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal, Crushed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | 1920
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds, till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider, shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal Crushed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | 1995
...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 ; shuts...opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal Crushed horrible,... | |
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... 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, and more The noise astounds:... 
