Thunderstorm
May. 2nd, 2024 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We had a thunderstorm last night where there was very little thunder but the lightning was almost continuous, centred in different places, flickering on and off above the clouds and once in a while sending a bolt down to strike the hills. I stood at the window in the baby's room and watched it. I enjoy a good thunderstorm.
But this one cost us sleep- and I'm feeling the effects of that this morning....
My favourite description of a thunderstorm is from Browning's The Ring and the Book. It goes like this...
I stood in Naples once, a night so dark
I could have scarce conjectured there was earth
Anywhere, sky or sea or world at all:
But the night's black was burst through by a blaze-
Thunder struck blow on blow, earth groaned and bore,
Through her whole length of mountain visible:
There lay the city thick and plain with spires,
And, like a ghost disshrouded, white the sea....
I took my complete Browning, Volume II down from the shelf and it fell open at this very passage: that's how much I love it.....
But this one cost us sleep- and I'm feeling the effects of that this morning....
My favourite description of a thunderstorm is from Browning's The Ring and the Book. It goes like this...
I stood in Naples once, a night so dark
I could have scarce conjectured there was earth
Anywhere, sky or sea or world at all:
But the night's black was burst through by a blaze-
Thunder struck blow on blow, earth groaned and bore,
Through her whole length of mountain visible:
There lay the city thick and plain with spires,
And, like a ghost disshrouded, white the sea....
I took my complete Browning, Volume II down from the shelf and it fell open at this very passage: that's how much I love it.....
