...winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. CAMPBELL. 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 rock'd to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield...

...— laugh at that !" Sing merrily, sing merrily, the Little Brown Man ! 165. THE CLOUD. • 1 BBING 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...

...account of this subject by a few extracts from it to justify the opinion we have expressed. "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...

...conceptions as Shelley ha.-, been in both these poems. Pie thus speaks for 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...

...dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, Erom the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade, for the leaves, when laid In their noonday dreams. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis...

...are " Prometheus Chained," " Alastor or the Spirit ot Solitude," " Queen Mab," and " Cenci."] I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shades for the leaves1 when laid In their noon-day dreams; From my wings are shaken 1 the dews that...

...:'— •I bring fresh showers for the tiny 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 dev.s that waken The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast. As she dances...

...continuous conceptions as Shelley hi beeu in both these poems. He thus speaks for 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...

...Upon the plants beneath."* Shelley too, personifying the Cloud, sings beautifully : '•'• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams." A volume of prose could scarcely express with more precision and completeness than these four lines...

...that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense. ANTHOLOGY. CLXIV.— THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the...she dances about the sun. I wield the °flail of the fashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as...