<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477894" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rising Of The Storm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE lake's dark breast<br>Is all unrest,<br>It heaves with a sob and a sigh.<br>Like a tremulous bird,<br>From its slumber stirred,<br>The moon is a-tilt in the sky.<br>From the silent deep<br>The waters sweep,<br>But faint on the cold white stones,<br>And the wavelets fly<br>With a plaintive cry<br>O'er the old earth's bare, bleak bones.<br>And the spray upsprings<br>On its ghost-white wings,<br>And tosses a kiss at the stars;<br>While a water-sprite,<br>In sea-pearls dight,<br>Hums a sea-hymn's solemn bars.<br>Far out in the night,<br>On the wavering sight<br>I see a dark hull loom;<br>And its light on high,<br>Like a Cyclops' eye,<br>Shines out through the mist and gloom.<br>Now the winds well up<br>From the earth's deep cup, <br>And fall on the sea and shore,<br>And against the pier<br>The waters rear<br>And break with a sullen roar.<br>Up comes the gale,<br>And the mist-wrought veil<br>Gives way to the lightning's glare,<br>And the cloud-drifts fall,<br>A sombre pall,<br>O'er water, earth, and air.<br>The storm-king flies,<br>His whip he plies,<br>And bellows down the wind.<br>The lightning rash<br>With blinding flash<br>Comes pricking on behind.<br>Rise, waters, rise,<br>And taunt the skies<br>With your swift-flitting form.<br>Sweep, wild winds, sweep, <br>And tear the deep<br>To atoms in the storm.<br>And the waters leapt,<br>And the wild winds swept,<br>And blew out the moon in the sky,<br>And I laughed with glee,<br>It was joy to me<br>As the storm went raging by!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477894" data-title="The Rising Of The Storm de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="THE lake's dark breast Is all unrest, It heaves with a sob and a sigh. Like a tremulous bird, From its slumber stirred, The moon is a-tilt in the sky. From the silent deep The waters sweep, But faint on the cold white stones, And the wavelets fly ..."></div> </div> </div>

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