So all night long the storm roared on; The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world... New National Fifth Reader - Page 394by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...and recrossed the winged snow: And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled the window frame, And through the glass the clothesline posts Looked...garden wall, or belt of wood; A smooth, white mound the brush pile showed, A fenceless drift what once was road; The bridle post an old man sat With loose-flung... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 198 pages
...signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...never! From SNOW-BOUND. So all night long the storm raved on:— And, when the second morning shone, AVe looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call...sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and tower. Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden wall, or... | |
| John Burroughs - 1884 - 334 pages
...yet been put into poetry. What an exact description is this of the morning after the storm : — " We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow." In his little poem on the May-flower, Mr. Stedman catches and puts in a single line a feature of our... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 200 pages
...signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snowl The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where... | |
| John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...those white angelic days we have in winter, such as Whittier has so well described in these lines : — "Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls...above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow. " On such days my spirit gets snow blind ; all things take on the same colour, or no colour ; my thought... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1885 - 446 pages
...signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder hent The blue walls of the firmament; No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 554 pages
...grotesque. The whole transfiguration is recalled : " The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or belt of wood ; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 pages
...grotesque. The whole transfiguration is recalled: "The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall, or belt of wood; The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cocked... | |
| 1893 - 376 pages
...collection of pressed leaves, the teacher will be well equipped with material for work when without is " No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow." The study of roots and stems can be postponed till the late fall when other material fails. С. Н. Morse.... | |
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