...million-colour'd bow ; The Sphere-fire above its soft colours wove, While the moist Earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when with never a stain The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams...

...million-coloured bow ; The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove, While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when with never a stain The pavilion of heaven is bare, "AMID THE SPLENDOUR-WINGED...

...million-coloured bow; The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove, While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain, when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams...

...sphere-fire above its soft colors wove, While the moist earth was laughing below. I am the daughter of the here, my child 1 " " Eye hath not seen it, my gentle...heard its deep sounds of joy ; Dreams cannot picture For after the ram, when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams,...

...misguided. Consider, for example, Culler's treatment of the final stanza of Shelley's 'The Cloud'. I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams...

...which Shelley personifies: I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursîi'ng of the Sky; Í pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. We have, however, learned the mysterious key word which brings back the vapor spirit to our sight and...

..."fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure": I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare. And the winds and sunbeams...

...PoEL-4 The Cloud 24 That orbed maiden with white fire laden. Whom mortals call the Moon, (1. 45-46) 25 26 I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of ram, Like a child from the womb,...

...are chained to my chair, Is the million-coloured bow; 70 The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove, I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams,...

...nafler OiceaH.*18 Shelley, in 'The cloud', has two feminine, four masculine rhymes in the first stanza: I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling...the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. In the Russian, where the natural tendency is toward feminine or dactylic rhyme and in which there...