| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...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....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. I wield... | |
| Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...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....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. I wield... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...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...the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breast As she dances abont the snn. I wield the flail of the lashing... | |
| Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...storm, Like 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...inlistening to the carolling of the bird aloft in spinition. Hi* t-xtrnm- M-usibility gave the SHELLEY. I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breast,1 As she dances about the sun. I wield... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...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....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. 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... | |
| 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...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. — Shelley.... | |
| |