...whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. 2. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their...the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers Lightning, my pilot, sits ; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and...

...whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. 2. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their...the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits ; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, — • It struggles...

...whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. ith the clamours of the crowd below ; Here sorrowing,...And the cold charities of man to man : Whose laws in anus of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers Lightning, my pilot, sits ; In a cavern...

...sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan nghast ; And nil the night 't is my pillow white. While I sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers Lightning, my pilot, sits : In a cavern under is fettered the thunder ; lightly ; Over...

...formation must be added the poetry of cloudland. Shelley's poem is a delight when illustrated by pictures : "I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their...pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast." How much more of meaning is added to the words when the children see the "rent in the wind-built tent,"...

...the green plains under, 10 And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. 1 sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great...aghast; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While 1 sleep in the arms of the blast. Sublime on the towers of my slriey bowers, Lightning my pilot sits;...

...whiten the green plains under, 10 And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below. And their...of my skiey bowers, Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavem under is fettered the thunder. It struggles and howls at fits; 20 Over earth and ocean, with...

...follows suggests an ahernative. even paradoxical aloofness from the fray below on the part of the poet: 1 sift the snow on the mountains below. And their great...pillow white. While I sleep in the arms of the blast l1L 13-161. Action must be combined with contemplation. The cloud always remains above the fray. Thunder....

...away ! Fairer far than this fair Day. . .8 1 Ibid., pp. 137-41. 1 Ibid., pp. 137-8. 1 Cf. lines 17-20: "Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers, Lightning...fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits..." Although, of course, the trick of forming epithets by adding the "-y" suffix goes back to the seventeenth...

...Jobn Heywood's THE PHY OF IHE WETHER (1533). See Medwall, internal rhyme is rhyming within lines, eg I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their...pillow white. While I sleep in the arms of the blast. (from Prrry Shelby's "The Cloud") See rhyme. interpolation occurs when a section not by the writer...