...blows ; And all rare blossoms from every clime Grew in that garden in perfect prime. 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 the dews that waken...

...sleeping child As if it were her own ! 39.— THE CLOUD. PEROT BYSSHE SHELLEY. [See page 127.] 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...

...earthliness ; Where silence undisturb'd might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still. THE CLOUD! I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams ; 1 "The odes To the Skylark and Thf. Cloud, the azure sky of Italy, or marking the clond ID the opinion...

...might Exceeds our organs, which endure \^ No light, being themselves obscure. THE CLOUD. I. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their Mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield...

...Chinese or Japanese. Lines such as — " From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on 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...

...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 the seas...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....

...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 the...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield...

...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...

...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 the...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast. As she dances about the sun. I wield...

...palpable momentum. For instance, the horizontal rhythms of Shelley, and the amazing music of "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, /From the seas and the streams;/! bear light shade for the leaves when laid/In their noonday dreams," in his poem "The Cloud," indelibly...