<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Thunderstorm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DEEP, fiery clouds o'ercast the sky, <br>Dead stillness reigns in air, <br>There is not e'en a breeze, on high<br>The gossamer to bear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The woods are hushed, the waves at rest, <br>The lake is dark and still, <br>Reflecting, on its shadowy breast, <br>Each form of rock and hill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lime-leaf waves not in the grove, <br>Nor rose-tree in the bower; <br>The birds have ceased their songs of love, <br>Awed by the threatening hour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is noon;–yet nature's calm profound<br>Seems as at midnight deep;<br>–But hark! what peal of awful sound<br>Breaks on creation's sleep? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thunder bursts!–its rolling might<br>Seems the firm hills to shake; <br>And in terrific splendor bright, <br>The gathered lightnings break. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet fear not, shrink not thou, my child! <br>Though by the bolt's descent<br>Were the tall cliffs in ruins piled, <br>And the wide forests rent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doth not thy God behold thee still,<br>With all-surveying eye? <br>Doth not his power all nature fill,<br>Around, beneath, on high? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Know, hadst thou eagle-pinions free, <br>To track the realms of air, <br>Thou couldst not reach a spot where He<br>Would not be with thee there! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the wide city's peopled towers,<br>On the vast ocean's plains, <br>'Midst the deep woodland's loneliest bowers, <br>Alike th' Almighty reigns! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then fear not, though the angry sky<br>A thousand darts should cast;–<br>Why should we tremble, e'en to die, <br>And be with Him at last?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391658" data-title="The Thunderstorm de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="DEEP, fiery clouds o'ercast the sky, Dead stillness reigns in air, There is not e'en a breeze, on high The gossamer to bear. The woods are hushed, the waves at rest, The lake is dark and still, Reflecting, on its shadowy breast, Each form o..."></div> </div> </div>

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