 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...  An Introduction to Poetry - Page 149by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...THE CLOUD. 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 noon-day...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. I wield... | |
 | 1831 - 542 pages
...noon-day dreams. From my wing-, 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 mountain below. And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
 | American periodicals - 1832 - 598 pages
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wakea The sweet hirds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the ereen plains under, And then again I dissolve it in' rain, Andlaugh as I pass in thunder. 1 sift the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...shaken the dew« that wibt-n The sweet buds every one. When rock'd to rest on their mother's brttsî. . Grigg 1 dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below. And... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pages
...THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I tear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday...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. I wield... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 850 pages
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreflms. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass iu thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1879 - 432 pages
...The Cloud," might be sought for in vain in whole volumes of Chinese or Japanese. Lines such as — " From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet...their mother's breast As she dances about the sun." would appear to them in the highest degree grotesque, if not altogether unintelligible. He was a true... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...CLOUD.— Sheltey. 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 noon-day...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. I wield... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wak«> The sweet buds 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breasi , 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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