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When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

Ted Kooser
Firsts, Lightning, Thunderstorm
Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2013). “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

William Tecumseh Sherman
War, Might, Thunderstorm
General William Tecumseh Sherman (2014). “Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]”, p.829, Pickle Partners Publishing

As the dawn comes up like thunder.

Rudyard Kipling
Morning, Dawn, Thunder
"Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Thunderstorm, Serene
Source: www.counterpunch.org

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Heinrich Heine
Doe, Action, Thunder

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

Ernest Bramah
Book, Unnecessary, Thunderbolts
Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Wallet of Kai Lung”, p.15, Ernest Bramah

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Weather, Rainbow, Thunder
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

Rumi
Silent, Thunder
Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.96, Wellfleet

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

Neal Schon
Acoustics, Thunder, Closest

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Criss Jami
Sunshine, Thunderstorm
Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.38, Criss Jami

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Alfred M. Gray
Military, Sound, Thunder

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Musical, Thunder
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [118]

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

William Shakespeare
Lightning, Nimble, Thunder
William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.106

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

Rudyard Kipling
Play, Dawn, Thunder
"Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Goes On, Thunderstorm, Strive

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Lucretius
Envy, Levels, Thunderbolts
Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Herman Melville
Devil, Baggage, Thunder
1851 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

Dejan Stojanovic
Sky, Moonlight, Thunder
"Dancing of Sounds". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton
Storm, Thunder, Calamity
Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.32

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

Camille Paglia
Science, Thunderbolts, Accounts
Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

Rio Ferdinand
Thunderbolts

Thunder only happens when it's raining.

Stevie Nicks
Rain, Thunder, Dense
Song: Dreams

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

Mervyn Peake
Noon, Silent, Thunder
Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.148, The Overlook Press

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet

Melissa Etheridge
Feet, Thunder, Feels
Song: Talking To My Angel, Album: Yes I Am, 1993

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

William Shakespeare
Scapes, Thunderbolts
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra”, p.136, Classic Books Company

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