 THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2581850Full view - About this book
 | Henry Hawley Smart - 1878 - 462 pages
...cars for Quebec. There was ice in the St. Lawrence, and the country was clothed in robes of innocence. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleers muffled crow, The stiff... | |
 | 1878 - 254 pages
...Gloam'ing, twilight; dusk. £!ar rii'ra, a species of white marble. fTlHE snow had begun in the gloaming, JL And busily all the night, Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, 3. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 pages
...never raised a suckin' pig, , To glad me with its sunny eye, THE FIRST SNOW-FALL.-JR LOWELL. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field itnd highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 pages
...throbbing lids ; before 't was night Two added provinces blest Dara's sway. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping held and highway With a sileuce deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...Snarw-fall, written on the grave of his first-born ; here it is — full of gushing tenderness : — The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night...twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch-deep with pearl. * * -;:• I stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...throbbing lids ; before 'twas night Two added provinces blest Dara's sway. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chantieleer's muffled crow, The stiff... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...The dear Lord ordereth all things well ! " JOHN GRIiKNLEAF W'HITTIF.K. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow xpa 2 inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muHled crow, The stiff... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 282 pages
...as my mother dealt with me, So with His children dealeth He. 22. -THE FIRST SNOW-PALL. 1. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 294 pages
...as my mother dealt with me, So with His children dealeth He. 22. -THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 1. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...What color is Carrara marble? Who is Chanticleer? Why is his crow muffled? THE FIRST SNOWFALL The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's down And... | |
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