Canto II, stanza 20.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 556.
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American theologian 1832–1920Related quotes
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
Variant: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“Ireland, Ireland! That cloud in the west! That coming storm!”
William Ewart Gladstone
(1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to his wife, Catherine Gladstone (12 October 1845), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Wiliam Ewart Gladstone: Volume I (London: Macmillan, 1903), p. 383.
1840s
Context: Ireland, Ireland! That cloud in the west! That coming storm! That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions— God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face, and to work through them.
Robert Seymour Bridges
(1844–1930) British writer
Book IV, lines 492-492.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792–1822) English Romantic poet
When the Lamp is Shattered http://www.readprint.com/work-1382/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1822), st. 1
Context: When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead —
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.
“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.”
Langston Hughes
(1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West