Midnight Mass, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.”
St. X
Adonais (1821)
Context: Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise!
She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain
She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
“The rain starts with a single drop.”
About the Women to drive movement. As quoted in Saudi woman claims she was detained for driving http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/21/saudi.women.drivers/ (May 27, 2011) by Atika Shubert, CNN.
“Never king dropped out of the clouds.”
Power.
Table Talk (1689)
“God is a cloud from which rain fell.”
“A Cloud," p. 26
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
“Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 946.
“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)
