Suddenly he begins to sing softly, and, in the silence and perfume of the summer night, his hushed voice sounded like a caress: Land of the madrigal and ode, Of rainbow air and cloudless weather, Tell me what ferny, elfin road Will lead my eager footsteps thither.

BATES, RALPH. Rainbow fish.

Those who deem the end of poetry to be intoxication, fever, or rainbow dreams, can care little for Wordsworth.

He noted that atmospheric refraction would alter with the height of the atmosphere and with temperature, and also recognised the fact that rainbow colours depend on the angle of refraction, whether seen in the rainbow itself, or in dew, glass, water, or any similar medium.

Sometimes there's nobody in sightthat is, no real bodynothin' but clouds an' rainbows an' kings an' queens an' their families.

I'd no notion it could be so exciting to watch the career of trout from the egg stage up to rainbow maturity.

Waving them as rainbow shafts around her marble-white body, she used to interpret the priestess dances to the terrible Siva that she had learned in Java.

Oh, could the dream forever last, Could those loved forms forever stay; But no, e'en now the visions past, Like rainbow hues they fade away.

Onward they came in their joy, and around them the lamps of the sea-nymphs, Myriad fiery globes, swam panting and heaving; and rainbows Crimson and azure and emerald, were broken in star-showers,