 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...  The practical school grammar - Page 58by James Currie (A.M.) - 1871Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 470 pages
...We always love the occasional clouds that wander about the blue skies of summer, for we think "They bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ;" And in what beautiful places they must gather them ! Springs bright as "elemental diamonds;" rillets... | |
 | Henry D. Moore - 1850 - 276 pages
...listening now." Read his poem — " The Cloud — " of which the following is the opening stanzas : — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades fur the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? THE CLOUD. — Shelley. 1. B. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; 2. B. I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. 3. A. From ray wings... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...protect the earth from the intense rays of the sun, and as a vehicle for the electric fluid. I BBING 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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...though they are in truth nonsense, will delight those of our readers who have any taste for poetry. 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 dreams. From my wings are shaken the... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...darkness the wicked are driven, May our justified souls find a welcome in heaven. MlLMAN. 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... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...folding veil hath spread, The long-remembered dead ! XX.— THE CLOUD. PEROT BTSSHE SHEI.LKT I ERIXG 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 dreams. From my wings are shaken the... | |
 | Uncle Thomas - 1854 - 272 pages
...mean, and dangerous trick of listening.* * This trick is sometimes called eaves-dropping. 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 noonday dreams. I wield the flail of the lashing... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...With joy I bathe, and many souls beside Feel a new life in the celestial tide. THE CLOUD.— Shelley. 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 noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...the moonbeams kiss the sea : What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me ? TUB CLOUD. I. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I beur light shades for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the... | |
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