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... Bulletin - Page 9691901Full view - About this book
| Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...noon-day dreams ; From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the °flail of the fashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I gift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan "aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...Apostrophe. Shelley's "Cloud" is personification throughout. The following stanza is an example : — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." Besides the actual objects of Nature, it is not unusual to personify abstractions of the mind ; as,... | |
| Henry Coppée - 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....dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
| 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....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... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...On the lone wood and mighty hill. THE CLOUD. Bnaur. I BEING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wakeii The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...leaves when laid In their 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,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
| 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...dissolve it in 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...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 the flail of...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
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