While hot tears bedim the vision Of dear friends who mourn his death, May they manifest decision By the wondrous power of Faith, In belief that those who sleep Safe in Jesus shall not weep.
"The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects"
Thomas Cowherd
Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
"Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus"
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
And all the world was bright with her through him: But dark with strife, Like heaven's own sun that storming clouds bedim, Was all his life.
"A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems"
Algernon Charles Swinburne