"Lour" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spy.] How peaceful lies this palace, yet I see The war clouds lour upon its roofs. The storm will break with sudden vehemence upon These harmless unsuspecting people. Woe to them, Their doom is certain. Desperate resistance Succumbs before the overwhelming forces Of Bimbisara.—And what will become Of poor ...
— The Buddha - A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes • Paul Carus
... is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer! And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruisd arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
... to be here, he could not rest. deg.41 He loved each simple joy the country yields, He loved his mates; but yet he could not keep, deg. deg.43 For that a shadow lour'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly deg. sheep. deg.45 Some life of men unblest He knew, which made him droop, and fill'd his head. He went; his piping took a troubled sound Of storms deg. that rage outside our happy ground; He could not wait their passing, ...
— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold
... Yes, the accomplice of their dark designs, Awhile didst thou defend them, when the storm Lour'd at safe distance. When the clouds frown'd darker, Fear'd for yourself, and left them to their fate. Oh, I have mark'd thee long, and through the veil Seen thy foul projects. Yes, ambitious man, Self-will'd dictator o'er the realm of France, ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge |
