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 Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Seite 34herausgegeben von - 1838Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Daphne Smith Giles - 1856 - 264 Seiten
...rocked to rest on their mother's breast As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lathing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. ir. "I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night... | |
| 1856 - 402 Seiten
...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 the flail of the lashing hail,...again, I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass it in thunder. New Way of Curing a Toper. THE New York Tribune publishes the following thrilling sketch... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 Seiten
...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 the flail of the lashing hail,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. THE LAXDSCAPE.-DTI*. Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ? The fountain's... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 Seiten
...that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's2 breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,...the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers Lightning, my pilot,3 sits ; » In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 Seiten
...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 the flail of the lashing hail,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. THOMAS HOOD, a minor poet of this century, is best known as a humorous writer. But many of his pieces... | |
| 1860 - 528 Seiten
...that waken The sweet birds every one, • When rocked to rest on their mother's breast As the dances about the sun ; I wield the flail of the lashing hail,...the green plains under, And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." Again in his " Invocation to the "West Wind," in which, expressly... | |
| 1860 - 828 Seiten
...dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast As the dances about the sun ; I wield the flail of the lashing hail,...the green plains under, And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." Again in his " Invocation to the West Wind," in which, expressly... | |
| John Connery - 1861 - 416 Seiten
...dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rock'd to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,...pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast. In a cavern under is fetter'd the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits. Over earth and ocean, with... | |
| 1861 - 578 Seiten
...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 the flail of the lashing hail,...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 Seiten
...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 the flail of the lashing hail,...I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their groat pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the... | |
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