 Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end. The sled and traveler stopped,...  Illustrated Birthday Book of American Poets - Page 255edited by - 1881 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 298 pages
...SNOW-STOBM is a striking line with which Emerson opens his beautiful poem of the Snow- Storm: — " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight." One seems to see the clouds puffing their cheeks as they sound the charge of their white legions. But... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 296 pages
...SNOW-STORM r I "lHAT is a striking line with which Emerson opens his beautiful poem of the Snow-Storm: — " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight." One seems to see the clouds puffing their cheeks as they sound the charge of their white legions. But... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1895 - 584 pages
...— COR. Aoan-PA, Occult Phiy, Book I. ch. т. " Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrive« the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight : the whited air Hid«e hill* and woods, the river and the heaven, Aud veils the farm-house at the garden's end. Th*... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...DRYDEN. This during winter's drizzly reign be done, Till the new ram receives th' exalted sun. DRYDEN. Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...farm-house at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopp'd, the courier's feet Delay'd, all friends shut out, the house-mates sit Around the fireplace,... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 pages
...poem and become familiar with all words used, and with the charming word pictures: — THE SNOWSTORM. Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveler stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...and wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." THE SNOW STORM. by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the snow, and...veils the farm-house at the garden's end. The sled and traveler stopp'd, the courier's feet Delay 'd, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...183 ff. 21. Cf . Success, vii, 276, 277, and Appendix, p. 85, on Heroism, lii, 96. THE SNOW-STORM. ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives...heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end. 5 The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis - 1897 - 232 pages
...his hands with gore ? Not so ; his crime is a fouler one — God made the old man poor. — Whittier. Announced by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the...and driving o'er the fields Seems nowhere to alight. — Emerson. CHAPTER XL — STUDY OF AUTHORS. LESSON XLIV. — HENEY WADSWOETH LONGFELLOW. Born at... | |
 | 1898 - 344 pages
...snow comes down. — Mary F. Bui is. THE SNOW STORM. ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, -/X Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems...veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveler stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 pages
...trumpets of the sky, Arrives the Snow, and driving o'er the field, Seems nowhere to alight ; the whitened air Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven,...And veils the farm-house at the garden's end. The steed and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the house-mates sit... | |
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