 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
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...or that the pot, which was a new one, did not choose to boil them!" THE CLOUD. 27 THE CLOUD. I BEING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the...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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, Erom the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade, for the leaves, when laid In their noonday dreams. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...works are " Prometheus Chained," " Alastor or the Spirit ot Solitude," " Queen Mab," and " Cenci."] I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shades for the leaves1 when laid In their noon-day dreams; From my wings are shaken 1 the dews that... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1863 - 816 pages
...:'— •I bring fresh showers for the tiny 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 dev.s that waken The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast. As she dances... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...happy in continuous conceptions as Shelley hi beeu in both these poems. He thus speaks for the cloud :I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,...she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashieg hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as... | |
 | 1864 - 526 pages
...heaven Upon the plants beneath."* Shelley too, personifying the Cloud, sings beautifully : '•'• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams." A volume of prose could scarcely express with more precision and completeness than these four lines... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...the more enthusiastic lovers of verse, but disqualifies it from giving general pleasure. THE CLOUD. 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... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...to mortals given, The faith touching all things with hues of heaven ! Mrs, Bemans. XLIV. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Shelley. THE CLOUD. 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...Skylark. Judge of the rich quality of these compositions by the following extracts : — The Cloud:— 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... | |
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