| David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...Transformations. 155. Mountain-caps. CLOUDS. " I am the daughter of the earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; 1 change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven... | |
| Walter Colton - California - 1850 - 430 pages
...satirical soliloquy, like the cloud of Shelley : — I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and the sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,... | |
| REV. WALTER COLTON - 1850 - 444 pages
...satirical soliloquy, like the cloud of Shelley ; — I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and the sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...earth was laughing below. HYMN OF NATURE. 201 I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of the earth and water, And the nursling agrance of thy tender shrubs, Myrtle or rose, all crushed beneath the weight Of coarse-checked gleam«, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...wove, While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain,... | |
| John Lalor - Currency question - 1852 - 380 pages
...new capital spent upon the railway. CHAPTER V. THE REVOLUTION OF CAPITAL AND INCOME. " I pass throngh the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die." — SHELLEY. Law of Revolution. FROM the principle stated at the end of the foregoing chapter it results... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...wove, While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph. And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...wove, Whilst the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...wove, While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean...and sunbeams, with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child... | |
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