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" When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. "
The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 - Page 1392
1915 - 3742 pages
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East and West

Daphne Smith Giles - American fiction - 1856 - 264 pages
...will no doubt do it justice, seeing you are a poetess." 'il'll do my best'so we will have it. i. MI 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...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...bring froth showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the stream* ; I bear light shades for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dew* that waVem The sweet buds every one, When roek'd to rest, on their mother's breast, As she dances...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...screen to protect the earth from the intense rays of the sun, and as a vehicle for the electric fluid. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I hear light shades for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams ; From my wings are shaken the...
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Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine, Volumes 31-32

1856 - 402 pages
...a peaceful grave ! [See letter from PANSY in " Chat."] The Cloud. I BRING fresh showers for thirsty flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light...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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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...summer. 'Tis the haunt Of every gentle wind whose breath can teach The wilds to love tranquillity. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting...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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A Second Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...stood still, and nature made a pause — An awful pause, prophetic of her end. TlIE CLOUD — SBELLET. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade tor the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The...
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Gleanings from the Poets for Home and School

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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...once used specifically for song or singing ; — thus Milton writes, " with charm of earliest birds." THE CLOUD.' I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting...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...
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School-room Poetry

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...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - Readers - 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...
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