 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 the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it...  Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader - Page 2241864Full view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
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