 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
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...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 the seas...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 698 pages
...and propagated in a most unfortunate way. The fifth and sixth lines are usually printed thus : — " From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one." I find this reading in the last publication of the kind, Mr. Mackay's Thousand add one Gems of English... | |
 | Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...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... | |
 | Universalism - 1868 - 1048 pages
...dreams." Mark the extreme delicacy : *' From my wings Are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...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 the...their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun." 4. Hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure by which more is expressed than is literally true. " Upon the battle-field... | |
 | 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...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 the flail... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...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... | |
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