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 birds, every one. New National Fifth Reader - Page 20by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...might watch alone, Her soul above this sphere of earthliness; 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 - 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.... | |
| William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...For he died his master's eye beneath, All in that twentieth year. THE CLOUD.—(Percy Bysshe Shelley) 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. I wield... | |
| E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers ' Ill-minded man ! why scourge thy kind From the sea and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams.' ' Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories fade away; Change... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...water they 've left for me Shall • tchick I ' to tell them 1 'm drinking." Hiss couux THE CLOUD. ake thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form...the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the... | |
| David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...reign, When countless years are gone; And none so abject but may gain A title to his throne. THE CLOUD. BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...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... | |
| 1871 - 476 pages
...visible smile of Him, To the veil of whose brow your lamps are dim I WILLIAM C. BRYANT. The Cloud. 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 bieast, As she dances about the sun. I wield... | |
| Simon Kerl - 1869 - 422 pages
...248 Personification. 1. THB CLOUD. " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the sea and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves...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... | |
| Mary Anne Hearne - 1871 - 288 pages
...his mantle floating in mid-air." Shelley writes most musically about the cloud, and its mission— "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-daydreams. " From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, "When rocked... | |
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