 Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With now and then a ruder shock, Which made our very bedsteads rock. We heard the loosened clapboards tost, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on us, through the unplastered...  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 1301866Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...might lack, that bitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth arid light. Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...'through the unplastered wall, Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. 44 But sleep stole on, as sleep will do When hearts are light and life is new ; Faint... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pages
...might lack, that bitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and light. Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...a ruder shock, Which made our very bedsteads rock. -V. We heard the loosened clapboards tost, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on us, through... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...might lack, that hitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and light. Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...through the unplastered wall, Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep stole on, as sleep will do When hearts are light and life is new ; Faint... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...might lack, that bitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and light. Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...through the unplastered wall, Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep stole on, as sleep will do When hearts are light and life is new ; Faint... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1875 - 348 pages
...shelter, warmth and health, And love's contentment, more than wealth. 10. "Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...And on us, through the unplastered wall, Felt the light-sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep stole on, as sleep will do When hearts are light and life... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 316 pages
...might lack, that hitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and lights Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...tost, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on ns, through the unplastered wall, Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep stole on, as sleep... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 346 pages
...might lack, that bitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and light. 11. Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...very bedsteads rock. We heard the loosened clapboards t6ss, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on us, thrp.ugh the unplastered wall, Felt the light... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 pages
...lack, that bitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and light. 11. Within our beds awhile we heard With now and then a ruder shock, Which made our very bedsteads rock. We heard the loosened cla;;board§ tdss, The board-nails snapping in the frdst ; And on us, through the unplastered wall,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 pages
...bitter night, For bread and clothing, warmth and light. 11. Within our beds awhile we heard With DOW and then a ruder shock, Which made our very bedsteads rock. We heard the loosened clapboards toss, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on us, through the unplastered wall, Felt the light... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...might lack, that bitter night, For bread and ' clothing, warmth and light. Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With...tost, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on ns, through the unplastered wall, Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep atole on, as sleep... | |
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