| 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... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...for scent that blows ; And all rare blossoms from every clime Grew in that garden in perfect prime. 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... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 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... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...watched a sleeping child As if it were her own ! 39.— THE CLOUD. PEROT BYSSHE SHELLEY. [See page 127.] 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...sphere of earthliness ; Where silence undisturb'd might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still. THE CLOUD! I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams ; 1 "The odes To the Skylark and Thf. Cloud, the azure sky of Italy, or marking the clond ID the opinion... | |
| William Stewart Ross - English language - 1870 - 72 pages
...With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line. — Gray. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. — Shelley. Aristocracy has divorced those whom God has united — Father Labour and Mother Earth,... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...most successful effort in modern times in this department of literature. THE CLOUD. 471 THE CLOUD.1 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... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 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 - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...From the 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...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 - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...earth-consuming Hell 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...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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