The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

Four ducks on a pond, A grass-bank beyond, A blue sky of spring, White clouds on the wing; What a little thing To remember for yearsö To remember with tears!

-Allingham,William
  'A Memory'.

He stood, a point on a sheet of green paper proclaiming himself the center, with no walls, no borders anywhere; the sky no height above him, totally un- enclosed and shouted: Let me out!

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Animals in that Country,'Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer'.

The sky is darkening like a stain; Something isgoing to fall like rain, And it won't be flowers.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Witness'.

I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky Deep beyond deep, like never-ending stars.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Summoned By Bells, ch.1.

He answered and said unto them,When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew16:2^3.

The Sheltering Sky.

-Bowles, Paul Frederick
  Title of novel.

I lingered around them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

-Bronte«  , EmilyJane
  Wuthering Heights, ch.34, closing words.

The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with heröa sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past eternity.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza 27.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

-Carr, Emily
Klee Wyck, ch.17,'Salt  Water'.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
Ballad of the White Horse, bk.1.

   The sky cannot have two suns.

-Chiang Kai-Shek
c.1945  Quoted in Ross Merrill Mao (1993) ch.10.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

-Clare,John
  'I  Am'.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired thesunwithtalking and sent himdownthesky.

-Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson
  Ionica, Poems,'Heraclitus', his translationof an epigram by Callimachus.

None of them knew the color of the sky.

-Crane, Stephen
  The Open Boat.

   who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the skyöfilled with pretty people?

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  'Seven Poems, VII'. David Niven used the phrase for his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon (1975).

Do not expect again a phoenix hour, The triple-towered sky, the dove complaining, Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first ease Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.

-Day-Lewis, Cecil
  'From Feathers to Iron'.

The Brainöis wider than the Sky.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.632 (first published1896).

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917), opening lines.

   Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the stonefromthestone, taketheskinfromthearm, takethe muscle from bone, and wash them.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Murder in the Cathedral, pt.2.