| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. CAMPBELL. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting...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 - Elocution - 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... | |
| English periodicals - 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... | |
| 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 - English literature - 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... | |
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