 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...  Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices - Page 58by Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...screen to protect the earth from the intense rays of the sun, and as a vehicle for the electric fluid. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I hear light shades for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams ; From my wings are shaken the... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Crustacea - 1856 - 250 pages
...water again, and falls as rain over a wide extent of land. When the poet made the cloud sing — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams" — he might have added from the lakes also, for they supply much of the moisture which freshens the... | |
 | 1856 - 402 pages
...a peaceful grave ! [See letter from PANSY in " Chat."] The Cloud. I BRING fresh showers for thirsty flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light...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 lashing... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...summer. 'Tis the haunt Of every gentle wind whose breath can teach The wilds to love tranquillity. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting...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 lashing... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...stood still, and nature made a pause — An awful pause, prophetic of her end. TlIE CLOUD — SBELLET. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade tor the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...I bathe, and many souls beside Feel a new life in the celestial tide. THE CLOUD.— Shelley I EKING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades for the leaves, when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...once used specifically for song or singing ; — thus Milton writes, " with charm of earliest birds." THE CLOUD.' I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wines are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's2... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...and rave, And April weeps — but, O ye hours ! Follow with May's fairest flowers. THE CLOUD. I BEING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas...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 lashing... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...impure, Till the warm sun pities its pain And to the skies exhales it back again. THE CLOUD. I BEING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rooked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1860 - 558 pages
...Then there is his lyric of the " Cloud : " — " I bring fresh showers forthe thirsting flowers, For the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for...the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast As the dances about the sun ; I wield the flail of the lashing... | |
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