| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious...a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, 16 And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout backstick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious...Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. 3. Shut in from all the world without,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pages
...— The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fbrestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The...Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree £.••*•*-• Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent... | |
| Essex Institute - 1900 - 426 pages
...chimney.back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back.stick; The knotty forestick laid apart. And filled between with curious...whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rnde.furnished room Burst, flower.like, into rosy bloom;" These second-period houses at first were... | |
| 1885 - 994 pages
...the smothering bank." The building and lighting of the wood-fire, the hovering family group that " watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp...caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...chimney back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fore-stick laid apart, And filled between, with curious...Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. i H6AR'y. Whito. | » BOs'KJN$. A... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty and Company firet red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam,... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious...Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed... | |
| Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious...Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The .crane and pendent trammels showed,... | |
| 1872 - 900 pages
...— The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forcstick bare-houghed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed.... | |
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