 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...dreams. From 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...rain, And laugh' as I pass in thunder. I sift the snbw on the mountains below, And their great pines' groan aghast; And all the night' 'tis my pillow... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...noon-day dreams. 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 green plains under ; And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...noonday dreams ; 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. Hyperbole is a figure by which more is expressed than is literally true. " Upon the battle-field... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1870 - 496 pages
...noon-day dreams ; 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...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. 2. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...noonday dreams. 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...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. II. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - English language - 1870 - 72 pages
...noonday dreams ; 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. Aristocracy has divorced those whom God has united — Father Labour and Mother Earth,... | |
 | David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...noon-day dreams. 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...groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, Sublime in the towers of my skiey bowers, Lightning my pilot sits ; In a cavern under is fettered the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked Strang 't is my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wakeu The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. n. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast , And all the night 'tis... | |
 | Mary Anne Hearne - Devotional literature, English - 1871 - 288 pages
...noon-day dreams. " 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 green plains under, And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." Quite as beautiful, if more serious, is Wilson's wellknown... | |
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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... 
