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
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. THE CLOUD. DEBUT. I BEING 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... | |
| 1868 - 1048 pages
...bear lighl chudi'S for the h-jives when laid In their noonday dreams." Mark the extreme delicacy : *' From my wings Are shaken the dews that waken The sweet...on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.'1 Then it gathers strength and force, " I sift the suow on the mountains below, And their great... | |
| Woodland - 1868 - 186 pages
...shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me. JB Lou-ell. THE CLOUD. 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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1868 - 328 pages
...Bnrsting o'er the starlit deep, Lead a rapid masqne of death O'er the waters of his path. THE CLOUD. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams ; I hear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews... | |
| Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...represented as actually living. The following example from Shelley's Cloud will illustrate : — " 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." 4. Hyperbole.... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...Spirit ol Solitnde," " Queen Hab," and " Cenci."] I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, Prom the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the...my wings are shaken' the dews that waken The sweet birds' every bne, When rocked to rest I on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...of sorrow and pain, And returned to the land of thought again. 28* THE CLOUD. Per,y By»hc She'.lcy. 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 noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wakeii... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1879 - 548 pages
...The Cloud," might be sought for in vain in whole volumes of Chinese or Japanese. Lines such as — " From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet...their mother's breast As she dances about the sun." would appear to them in the highest degree grotesque, if not altogether unintelligible. He was a true... | |
| Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...raindrops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow! also Shelley's Ode The Cloud: I bring fresh showers For the thirsting flowers From...For the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. But the other tail- rime lines have three feet; cp. Kroder, Shelleys Verskunst, Erlangen 1903, p. 163.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...Of which thou art a demon, on thy grave This curse should be a blessing. Fare thee well! The Cloud I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, 10 And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. 1 sift the snow on the mountains... | |
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