 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 pages
...or to save, Will prove in the end the best blessing. (Copyright.) THE CLOUD. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 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... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...God ! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! THE CLOUD. Wordsworth. 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... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...thee, Where thou shalt rest, remembering not The moaning of the sea ! F. fffntans. XXXVII. THE CLOUD. 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...and at the end of the same verse. Some lines from Shelley's Cloud will illustrate both cases : — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In then- noon-day dreams." Repetitions of like vowel-sounds, where other conditions of perfect rhyme are... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...at all so in the part of Lady Randolph) even to Mrs. Siddons. 64 THE CLOUD. By PERCY B. SHELLEY. I. 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 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... | |
 | Universalism - 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 - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...storm, Like 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 - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...their sleep 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.... | |
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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. 
