 | 1828 - 814 pagini
...leaves when laid In 'their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the 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 lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as... | |
 | 1832 - 598 pagini
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that wakea The sweet hirds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the ereen plains under, And then again I dissolve it in' rain, Andlaugh as I pass... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pagini
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,...dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh m I pass in... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1879 - 432 pagini
...be sought for in vain in whole volumes of Chinese or Japanese. Lines such as — " From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one,...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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pagini
...leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the 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 lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagini
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet birds milkmaid sings ; The whistling ploughman stalks afield...Down the rough slope the ponderous wagon rings ; hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagini
...leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken. The aweet birds en the storm has ceased to blow ; When the fiery fight...more, And the storm has ceased to blow ! Hohenlinde hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass... | |
 | 1868 - 844 pagini
...leaves when laid In the 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...about the sun. '•' I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pagini
...leaves when laid In their 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,...she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the flashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain And laugh as... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pagini
...streams ; I bear light shades for the leaves, when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one,...dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in... | |
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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... 
