 The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed.  Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl - Page 18by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 52 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1866 - 470 pages
...And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; — " Before such a fire the author tells us: "Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | 1866 - 950 pages
...And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ;— " Before such a fire the author tells us: " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let¿he north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...shadow, or the somber green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness at their back. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 pages
...shadow, or the somber green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness at their back. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clata-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...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, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red l6gs before us beat The fr6st-line... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 pages
...winter night in-doors, the storm raging, the cold increasing, and the drifts deepening : " Shut In (torn all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about. Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red-lopi before us beat The front-line... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...shadow, or the somber green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness at their back. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...seemed, where'er it fell, To make the coldness visible. [Lines 1 to 154. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, MD BORN AUQ. 29, 1809, CAMBRIDOB, MASS. Popular writer of prose... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...rhyme : " Under the tree, When fire outdoors burns merrily, There the witches are making tea." ***** Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about. ***** What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1874 - 500 pages
...shadow, or the sombre green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness at their hack. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth ahout, Content to let the north-wind roar In haffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - 1875 - 252 pages
...sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. 7. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar jn baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat .se'he frost-line back with tropic... | |
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