 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...skies. John Keats: 1795-1821. (See page 47.) CHRISTMAS-TIME. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had rolled, And brought blithe... | |
 | Annie Brassey - 1880 - 726 pages
...friends we have left behind us. A Quiot Tim CHAPTER XIII. FROM MALTA TO MARSEILLES. The wind is chill, But let it whistle as it will We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Wednesday, December 2$th. — I woke at 3.50 am, and read and wrote till 8 am We had service... | |
 | 1880 - 818 pages
...famous introduction to the sixth canto of ' Marmion ' — "Heap on more wood! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still." The ring of the metre sounds like the church bells to a devotee, or the dinner-gong to a hungry... | |
 | Silas Kitto Hocking - 1880 - 386 pages
...Enoch was debtor to him. CHAPTER X. HARRY IN A NEW CHARACTER. " Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still." — SCOTT. ' The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven,... | |
 | 1880 - 812 pages
...famous introduction to the sixth canto of ' Marmion ' — "Heap on more wood! — the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still." The ring of the metre sounds like the church bells to a devotee, or the dinner-gong to a hungry... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...Lent all the rest of the year ! Poor Robins Almanack, 1695. Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, Well keep our Christmas merry still. Scott, Marmion, c. 6. CHURCH— see Cathedral, Clergyman, Religion. Then might you see Cowls,... | |
 | 1881 - 980 pages
...were wide enough to include even the unknown. CHAPTER II. " Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. The damsel donned her kirtlc sheen ; The hall was dressed with holly green; Forth to the wood... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1884 - 956 pages
...blest, In the farmer's heavenly home A SAXON CHRISTMAS. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill 5 But let it whistle as it will We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even heathen yet,... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...on earth, good-will to men! — LONGFELLOW. DECEMBER 26 Heap on more wood ! — the wind is chill, But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still; Each age has deem'd the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. — WALTER SCOTT. DECEMBER... | |
 | Blinkhoolie, William Allison - 1881 - 276 pages
...: CLAY A\J> TAYLOR, PRINTERS BLAIR ATHOL. CHAPTER I. " Heap on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer, And well our Christian... | |
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Heap on more wood ! — the wind is chill, But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. 
