...shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me. JB Lou-ell. 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...

...dreams." Mark the extreme delicacy : *' 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.'1 Then it gathers strength and force, " I sift the suow on the mountains below, And their great...

...Bnrsting o'er the starlit deep, Lead a rapid masqne 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...

...represented as actually living. The following example from Shelley's Cloud will illustrate : — " I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From...their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun." 4. Hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure by which more is expressed than is literally true. " Upon the battle-field...

...Spirit ol Solitnde," " Queen Hab," and " Cenci."] I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, Prom the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the...shaken' the dews that waken The sweet birds' every bne, When rocked to rest I on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail...

...raindrops 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...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....

...Of 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...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...

...evaporation 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...

...unawakened earth 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...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...

...as in 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...