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... Colossi: A Lyric Anthology. I - Page 122edited by - 1906 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1849 - 470 pages
...always love the occasional clouds that wander about the blue skies of summer, for we think "They bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ;" And in what beautiful places they must gather them ! Springs bright as "elemental diamonds;" rillets... | |
| Henry D. Moore - Gift books - 1850 - 276 pages
...now." Read his poem — " The Cloud — " of which the following is the opening stanzas : — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades fur the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...from the ethereal car, Long did she gaze, and silently, Upon the slumbering maid. The Cloud.' I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leave« when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that nta The sweet birds... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...protect the earth from the intense rays of the sun, and as a vehicle for the electric fluid. I 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... | |
| Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? THE CLOUD. — Shelley. 1. B. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; 2. B. I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. 3. A. From ray wings... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...speculativen Meditationen zu , in welchen er sich zu sehr verwirrte. The Cloud. I bring fresh showers for thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams; I...the dews that waken The sweet birds 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... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...they are in truth nonsense, will delight those of our readers who have any taste for poetry. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the...the dews that waken The sweet birds 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... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...the wicked are driven, May our justified souls find a welcome in heaven. MlLMAN. 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... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...bathe, and many souls beside Feel a new life in the celestial tide. THE CLOUD.— 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 noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
| Uncle Thomas - Gift books - 1854 - 272 pages
...dangerous trick of listening.* * This trick is sometimes called eaves-dropping. 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 noonday dreams. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And... | |
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