 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
 | 1858 - 158 pages
...if in quiet homage to the Power that silently clothed the earth in such new and wonderful grace. " Every pine and fir and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl ; And the smallest branch of the elm-tree, Was fringed inch-deep with pearl." And now a heavier gust swept through... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...GOOD THAT I CAN DO. 360 The First Snow Fall. [December THE FIRST SNOW FALL. BY JAMBS BCSBEL LOWELL. The enow had begun in the gloaming And busily all...the night Had been heaping field and highway With a Bilence deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 pages
...that He will not fail to comfort and support me under them. THE FIEST SJTOW PALL.—[LOWELL.] The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock 5 Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with... | |
 | 1861 - 236 pages
...understand Why closer in mine, ah ! closer, I pressed his soft, warm hand. 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. 202 PICTURES AND FLOWERS. From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...earth, And my ashes repose in the land of my birth ! EHZA. COOK. C 3 14. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled... | |
 | 1861 - 228 pages
...understand Why closer in mine, ah ! closer, I pressed his soft, warm hand. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...fir, and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The rails were softened to swan's... | |
 | Annie Fisler - 1866 - 196 pages
...went out and left her with God. CHAPTER YI. " The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all (he night, Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white." *T was Saturday, the children's holidayMiss Lane was walking through the glen towards the village,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...Snow-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 Had been heaping Held and highway with a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine too dear... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 276 pages
...delightful hour among the ice-cutters. XXXVIII.— THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. JAMES R. LOWELL. 1. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily, all the night, Had been heaping field and highway AVith a silence deep and white. 2. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl,... | |
 | 1889 - 226 pages
...106 107 THE SNOW FALL. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily nil the night Had been heaping field and highway With...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff... | |
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