 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 noon-day dreams ; From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their...  Class-book of English poetry - Page 299by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Charles B. Cousar - Bible - 1994 - 648 pages
...precipitation and evaporation should be expressed, as in v. 10. One is reminded of the lines from Shelley's "The Cloud": I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams; I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of oceans... | |
 | June Jordan - Literary Collections - 1995 - 224 pages
...as in palpable momentum. For instance, the horizontal rhythms of Shelley, and the amazing music of "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, /From the seas and the streams;/! bear light shade for the leaves when laid/In their noonday dreams," in his poem "The Cloud," indelibly... | |
 | John E. Thornes, John Constable - Art - 1999 - 292 pages
...the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain And laugh as I pass in thunder. CUMULUS I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams STRATUS From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one. CIRRUS That orbed maiden... | |
 | Vi︠a︡cheslav Ivanovich Ivanov - Literary Collections - 2001 - 360 pages
...93:4. 5. A paraphrase (cited in English) of lines from Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1820 poem "The Cloud": "From my wings are shaken the dews that waken / The...their mother's breast, / As she dances about the Sun." 6. From Antistrophe 3 of Ivanov's "Rebirth" ("Vozro/.hdenie"), first published in Pilot Stars; also... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...It is an integral part of it'. Shelley proceeds by tracing the cloud through various metamorphoses: I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers. From the seas and the streams: l bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon,day dreams lIL 1-41. The cloud of the opening... | |
 | Richard Hamblyn - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 306 pages
...in a fluid, changeable organism which addresses the reader in an appealingly mocking tone of voice: 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... | |
 | Will D. Campbell - Holmes County (Miss.) - 2002 - 318 pages
...beauty exhausted from the aftermath of his desire and Eve's curse, and tenderly recite from Shelley: From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet...their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. Or did some wretching premonition whisper that this little pink bundle with his mixed ancestry was... | |
 | Kerry Emanuel - Nature - 2005 - 296 pages
...order to escape such disaster. Tropical clouds near the Florida Keys. Photograph by Howard Blucstcm. bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon -day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked... | |
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