 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...remove me hence unto that hill Where I shall need no glass. HENRY VAUGHAN. 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 Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 276 pages
...love with the less gift goes/' I growl, as, half moody, I toast my toes. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. HE 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 Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff... | |
 | 1876 - 294 pages
...love with the less gift goes," I growl, as, half moody, I toast my toes. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. HE 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 Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff... | |
 | Elizabeth Lloyd - 1876 - 156 pages
...dairy ; pleasure ; dripping ; removed ; sighs; clear; refuse; nearly. 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... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1876 - 122 pages
...bless us! " " God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim the last of all. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and burdock Wore ermine too dear for an earl; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep... | |
 | 1877 - 974 pages
...by Lowell : The enow had begun In tbe gloaming, And bueily all the night Bad been heaping field nnd highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermlue too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-treo Wae ridged inch-deep with pearL From... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 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 anil highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 pages
...never raised a suckin' pig. To glad me with its sunny eye, THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. -JR Lowmx. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...; 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... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 pages
...gus-h of light these eyes will brim, Only to think She came and went. 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-roof d with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...sky grows clear, When thy merry step draws near. LONGFELLOW : Jfenouveau : from the French. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock \Vore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl.... | |
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