gale quotes

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

- Djuna Barnes
  Doctor. Nightwood, ch.5.

The gale, it plies the saplings double, It blows so hard,'twill soon be gone: To-day the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.31.

Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding, Loudly the war-cries arise on the gale, Fleetly the steed by Loc Suilig is bounding To join the thick squadrons in Saimear's green vale. On, every mountaineer, Strangers to flight and fear: Rush to the standard of dauntless Red Hugh! Bonnought and gallowglass, Throng from each mountain-pass! On for old ErinO'Donnell abu!

- M(ichael) J(oseph) McCann
  The Spirit of the Nation,'O'Donnell  Abu'.

Beauteous the fleet before the gale; Beauteous the multitudes in mail, Rank'd arms and crested heads: Beauteous the garden's umbrage mild, Walk, water, meditated wild, And all the bloomy beds.

- Christopher Smart
  A Song to David, stanza 78.