 With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat; The well-curb had a Chinese roof; And even the long sweep, high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. A prompt, decisive man, no breath Our father wasted: "Boys, a path!  The Children's Hour - Page 341869Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...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...white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
 | 1866 - 976 pages
...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...white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...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 an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...and snow ! 3. The old familiar sight of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Eose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or...white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post an old man sat, With loose-flung coat and high-cocked hat ; The... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and tower» what once was road ; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...sky and snow ! 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...white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat; The well-curb... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...sky and snow I The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, . Or garden wall,...white mound the brush-pile showed ; A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post an old man sat, With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...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,...white mound the brush-pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road ; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strangedomes and towers Rose np where sty or corn-crib stood, От Acre ! It is just ; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er what once was road ; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat : The... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - 992 pages
...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 an nld man sat, With loose-flung coat and high cocked hat ; The... | |
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