 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat...  The Whittier Birthday Book - Page 388by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 155 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In battle rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat 160 The frost-line back with tropic... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 pages
...fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 155 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In battle rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat 160 The frost-line back with tropic... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Most lilting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. sage they wrote to many a land ; How he, who lone...great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. ami rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, fa Content to let the north-wind roar V In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 616 pages
...Most fitting that un warm ing light. Which only seemed where'er it tell To make the coldnesf visible. Shut in from all the world without. We sat the clean-winged...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The fro4t-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast SNOW-BOUND, 353 Shook beam and rafter... | |
 | Henry B. Buckham - 1881 - 270 pages
...the hill-range stood Transfigured in the silver flood, Its blown snows flaxhitig cold and keen. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt - 1909 - 734 pages
...hearth-stones. The same use was made of wings in New England. Whittier alludes to this when he says : "Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about." These old fireplaces were tiled in the best rooms; the tiles were of chocolate-color, a reddish pink... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light. Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth ahout Content to let the north-wind roar In haffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost line... | |
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