 The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 461885Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 976 pages
...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow 1 The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or belt of wood; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty...or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pages
...bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes;...and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...The blue walls of the firmament ; No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow I The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes...towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, . Or garden wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed ; A fenceless drift what... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty...or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - 992 pages
...as Whitticr describes it, for instance, in picturing for us the winter farm-life of his boyhood : " Strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed ; A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden- wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 400 pages
...no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 3. The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar, sights of ours Took marvelous shapes...and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or belt of wood ; A smooth white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once... | |
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