 I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's...  Complete Rhetoric - Page 46by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...I bathe, and many souls beside Feel a new life in the celestial tide. THE CLOUD.— Shelley I EKING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades for the leaves, when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...specifically for song or singing ; — thus Milton writes, " with charm of earliest birds." THE CLOUD.' I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wines are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's2... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...impure, Till the warm sun pities its pain And to the skies exhales it back again. THE CLOUD. I BEING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas...the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rooked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...and rave, And April weeps — but, O ye hours ! Follow with May's fairest flowers. THE CLOUD. I BEING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1860 - 558 pages
...Then there is his lyric of the " Cloud : " — " I bring fresh showers forthe thirsting flowers, For the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast As the dances about the sun ; I wield... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...Then there is his lyric of the " Cloud : " — " I bring fresh showers forthe thirsting flowers, For the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, • When rocked to rest on their mother's breast As the dances about the sun ; I wield... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. CAMPBELL. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 346 pages
...general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause — An awful pause, prophetic of her end. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield... | |
 | 1861 - 578 pages
...concluding our account of this subject by a few extracts from it to justify the opinion we have expressed. "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades for the leaves, when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...— laugh at that !" Sing merrily, sing merrily, the Little Brown Man ! 165. THE CLOUD. • 1 BBING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
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