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" Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bedtime came The white drift... "
The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 132
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892
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The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12

1865 - 838 pages
...however, which we think our readers will prefer, we only give a small fragment of this: " So all nlgbt long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with linn Of Nature's geometric tigm, Tn xt firry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And,...
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Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came...Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, it * All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17

1866 - 976 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winge'd snow : And ere the early bed-time came...spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, la starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone,...
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Independent First[-sixth] Reader, Volume 2

James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag, wavering to and fro, Cr6ssed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came The white drift filled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 8; Volume 30

1885 - 994 pages
...The gray day darkens to " A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm; The white drift piled the window-frame, And through...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. The poet's child-vision makes this fancy natural and not grotesque. The whole transfiguration is recalled...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...wavering to and fro Crossed and rccrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came The whit« a ; hi tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All...
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The Franklin Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools : with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrossed the winged snow ; And ere the early bed-time came,...clothes-line posts - Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 2. So all night long the storm roared on, And when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...scaffold's pole of birch, The cock his crested helmet bent, And down his querulous challenge sent. Ilnwarmed by any sunset light, The gray day darkened into night,...window-frame ; And through the glass the clothes-line posts So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without ;i SUM. In tiny spherule traced with...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow ; And, ere the early bedtime came,...window-frame ; And through the glass the clothes-line posts So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun. In tiny spherule traced with...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the wTinged snow : And ere the early bed-time came The whit« ning me from sin, How swift to save me didst thou...power ! CHARLES WESLEY. JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL. starr)' flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the_second morning shone, We...
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