...BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flower", From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shades fur the leaves when laid In their 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...

...Bursting o'er the starlit deep, Lead a rapid masque of death O'er the waters of his path. THE CLOUD. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams ; I hear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews...

...so smiled ' The false deep ere the storm. Like a sister »n<i brother 258 25ÍI THE CLOUD. I BRIXO 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...

...Bursting o'er the starlit deep, Lead a rapid masque of death O'er the waters of his path. ***** THE CLOUD. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From...the dews that waken The sweet birds 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...

...graceful from the ethereal car, Long did she gaze, and silently, Upon the slumbering maid. Thedmud." rge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly...setting throne. Air, earth, and ocean smile immense. the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh...

...graceful from the ethereal car, Long did she gaze, and silently, Upon the slumbering maid. The Cloud.* the torrent aweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I...

...which represents the most dazzling qualities of Shelley's technique, the printed text originally ran— From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one. Much less satisfactory is the alteration made by the Clarendon Press editors in "Love's Philosophy";...

...Doria's fleet lay. — Robertsons Hist., Charles F., Vol. III. FRIDAY, November 28. Into Latin Elegiacs. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that awaken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about...

...earth, their all-renovating treasure. With as much truth as beauty does Shelley make " The Cloud " say " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In the noon-day dreams. " From my wings are shaken the dews that awaken The sweet birds every one, "When...

...specifically for song or singing ; — thus Milton writes, " with charm of earliest birds." THE CLOUD.1 I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I hear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews...