Dark as a cloud thatdims the day The monarch of the giants lay, Perfumed with sandal’s precious scent And gay with golden ornament.
Hear thou,” thus Bharat made reply, “What chills my heart and dims mine eye.
But high she shoots through air and light-- Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way.
Whatever dims thy sense of truth, Or stains thy purity, Though light as breath of summer air Count it as sin to thee.
Meekness heightens immortal attributes only by removing the dust thatdims them.
I've seen together rise; This dims each meaner lustre of the skies, And that sweet sun I love dims every light.
But though each of you croakers speaks the truth, your love for me dims your sight.
There stands three days' allowance; in this hot weather it dims my sight.
Not at death that life begins, Though a fuller strength it wins; Freed from all that cramps its might, Freed from all that bounds its flight, Freed from all that dims its light.
Above the tossing trees shines down a star, Quietly bright; this wild, tumultuous joy Quickens nor dims its splendour.
It blots the blue, it dims the skies; Amid the summer land it cries, "I come, and there is no escape!
But not a shadow dims your joyance sweet, No baffled hope or memory darkly clad; You lay your whiteness at the Lord's dear feet, And are all glad.
The weather darkens the line and defines it, or mingles it with the raining cloud; or softly dims it, or blackens it against a gleam of narrow sunshine in the sky.
It leaves the upper blue clear and the head of Orion, but dims the flicker of Sirius and shortens the steady ray of the evening star.
If the two lights are supposed to be in the same order, the lesser is dimmed by the greater, as the light of the sun dims the light of a candle, both being in the class of illuminants.
This is the reason why any movement whatsoever of anger, even if it be tempered by reason, dims the mind's eye of him who contemplates.
The greater light dims the lesser light of another luminous body; but it does not dim, rather it perfects the light of the body illuminated--at the presence of the sun the light of the stars is put out, but the light of the air is perfected.
In which each shade that dimsher darling face Is felt and answered, as the lake reflects The clouds that cross yon smiling Heaven.
Whose days are past, whose toil is done; Here midnight care disturbs our rest, Here sorrow dims the morning sun.
But while the flight Of seasons fills and knits thy spreading frame, It withers mine, and thins my hair, and dims These eyes, whose fading light shall soon be quenched In utter darkness.
When not a shade of pain or ill Dims the bright smile of Nature's face, Thou lov'st to sigh and murmur still.
Beneath his projecting black brows, his eyes gleamed doubtful, as a wood-fire where white ash dims the glow.
Now twilight dims the waters' flow, And from the tower, the beacon's glow Waves flickering o'er the main.
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