All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky... The Whittier Birthday Book - Page 369by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1865 - 838 pages
...morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with linn Of Nature's geometric tigm, Tn xt firry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone. We looked npon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue... | |
| 1866 - 976 pages
...The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, la starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor...a world unknown. On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1866 - 840 pages
...shut in by a snow-storm, and of the path-cleaving labors of the day following. " All day the heavy meteor fell; And when the second morning shone, We...world unknown, On nothing we could call our own." » • » • 4 • " We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, it * All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown,... | |
| 1867 - 894 pages
...soothe, rest, and engage : — So all night long the storm roared on ; The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric...a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pages
...tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm 'roared on: The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric...world unknown, On nothing we could call our own-. Around the glistening wonder bent • The blue walls of the firmament, ' No cloud above, no earth below,... | |
| 1869 - 390 pages
...nights," said Uncle Herbert. "Ho-.v it looked on the second morning the poet tells us." And he read — "And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walla of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below —... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; hi . ЛУе looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...clothes-line posts - Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 2. So all night long the storm roared on, And when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,... | |
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