 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...  On the Structure of English Verse - Page 101by Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 pages
...clouds, which ' 0 ! qui me gelidis in vallibus Hoemi ' Sistet, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra.' ' Bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers ' From the seas and the streams, ' .And bear light shade for the leaves when laid ' In their noonday dreams. ' From their wings are... | |
 | 1866 - 514 pages
...ingenti ramorum protegat umbra.' The soft temperature of the wood-country attracts the clouds, which ' Bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers ' From the seas and the streams, '.And bear light shade for the leaves when laid ' In their noonday dreams. ' From their wings are shaken... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...and at the end of the same verse. Some lines from Shelley's Cloud will illustrate both cases : — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In then- noon-day dreams." Repetitions of like vowel-sounds, where other conditions of perfect rhyme are... | |
 | 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...one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under,... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...at all so in the part of Lady Randolph) even to Mrs. Siddons. 64 THE CLOUD. By PERCY B. SHELLEY. I. 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 Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill. THE CLOUD. DEBUT. I 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. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...raindrops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow! also Shelley's Ode The Cloud: I bring fresh showers For the thirsting flowers From...For the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. But the other tail- rime lines have three feet; cp. Kroder, Shelleys Verskunst, Erlangen 1903, p. 163.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...Of which thou art a demon, on thy grave This curse should be a blessing. Fare thee well! The Cloud I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under,... | |
 | Charles B. Cousar - 1994 - 648 pages
...evaporation should be expressed, as in v. 10. One is reminded of the lines from Shelley's "The Cloud": I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams; I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of oceans... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? 70 THE CLOUD I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers. From...one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast. As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under,... | |
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