 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...  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 398by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 pages
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams; From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I elft the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis my... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. R. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...leaves when laid in their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken the sweet buds every one, when rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dissolve it in rain, and laugh as I pass in thunder. 106 I am the daughter of earth and water, and the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest On their mother's breast,...; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning my pilot sits,... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. II. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...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 breast,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." Besides the actual objects of Nature, it is not unusual to personify abstractions of the mind ; as,... | |
 | Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...the green plains under, And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wakeii The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's...; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams ; From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's...; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breast,1 As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of...; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers Lightning, my pilot, sits... | |
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