
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
"Carthon"
The Poems of Ossian
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 169
Context: This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
"Carthon"
The Poems of Ossian
Something About the Way You Look Tonight
Song lyrics, The Big Picture (1997)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 514.
Context: I cannot speak
In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
Show I am sad;
But I can speak
Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.
I cannot feel
That all is well, when dark'ning clouds conceal
The shining sun;
But then I know
God lives and loves; and say, since it is so,
"Thy will be done."
“Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.”
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.”
Act v, Scene iii.
Richelieu (1839)
Epithalamium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.”
These Are The Clouds http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1715/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.