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" By dreary-voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs swaying blind, And on the glass the unmeaning beat Of ghostly finger-tips of sleet. Beyond the circle of our hearth No welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell,... "
The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 354
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 543 pages
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Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone H To the savage air, no social smoke Curled over woods...of snow-hung oak. A solitude made more intense By dreary voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs swaying blind,...
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The Land We Love, Volume 1

1866 - 470 pages
...the firmament; And the inmates of the house were completely isolated from the external world ; for, " Beyond the circle of our hearth No welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell, and testified Of human life and thought outside. We minded that the sharpest ear The buried brooklet could...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 93

1867 - 894 pages
...drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone, The sun through drizzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the...of snow-hung oak, A solitude made more intense By dreary voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs swaying blind,...
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Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pages
...drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the...of snow-hung oak. A solitude made more intense By dreary voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning tree-boughs swaying blind,...
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Ursula's love story [by G. Parsons].

Gertrude Parsons, Ursula (fict. name.) - 1869 - 320 pages
...what the people called " bitter weather ;" but Ursula felt no chill on her warm heart. There was " The shrieking of the mindless wind ; The moaning tree-boughs...the unmeaning beat Of ghostly finger-tips of sleet." But Ursula's light step and buoyant spirit was proof against the effects of the dreariest of days and...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist }2 solihiile made more intense By dreary-voiced elements, The shrieking of the mindless wind, The moaning...
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The Franklin Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools : with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the...no social smoke Curled over woods of snow-hung oak. 6. As night drew on, and, from the crest Of wooded knolls that ndged the west, * The Leaning Tower...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone. No church-bell lent its Christian tone To the...welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell, and testified Of human life and thought ontside. We minded that the sharpest ear The buried brooklet could...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

1872 - 900 pages
...drift its breath before ; Low circling round its southern zone, ' The sun through dazzling snow-mist testified Of human life and thought outside. We minded that the sharpest ear The buried brooklet could...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...before ; Low cireling round its southern zone, The sun through dazzling snow-mist shone. No chureh-bell lent its Christian tone To the savage air, no social...welcome sound of toil or mirth Unbound the spell, and testified Of human life and thought ontside. We minded that the sharpest ear The buried brooklet could...
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