 The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed.  Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl - Page 18by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 52 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alice Woodworth Cooley - 1909 - 424 pages
...sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. ii Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, 1 Lines 116 to 135, 155 to 178, and 500 to 614. While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...shadow, or the sombre green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black 150 Against the whiteness of their back. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 155 Shut in from all the world without, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...shadow, or the sombre green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black 150 Against the whiteness of their back. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...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... | |
 | 1909 - 1754 pages
...foreign field, and that we arjj now permitted to do the-n ERSKINE N. WHITE, DD, SECRETARY. THANKSGIVING "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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pages
...hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness at their back. 150 Which only seemed where'er il fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, |H We sat the clean-winged hearth about. Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, Lucy Adella Sloan - 1913 - 100 pages
...shadow, or the sombre green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness at their back. 150 For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, 155 We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane... | |
 | 1914 - 442 pages
...shadow, or the somber green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black 150 Against the whiteness at their back. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 155 Shut in from all the world without, In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before... | |
 | Anna Content (Chase) Chamberlain - 1914 - 280 pages
...forward "Grandma's" old easy chair into the circle of the firelight that Mother might have a seat. " 'Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about,' " quoted Mother significantly, and at this hint Aleck and Eleanor began to draw the curtains close.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1898 - 142 pages
...shadow, or the sombre green Of hemlocks turned to pitchy black Against the whiteness of their back. 150 For such a world and such a night Most fitting that...coldness visible.^ Shut in from all the world without, 155 We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north- wind roar In baffled rage at pane... | |
 | Howard Roscoe Driggs - 1917 - 298 pages
...The stronger's the reason Our ceiling should flicker and glow in thy blaze. — William Cox Bennett. 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. And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter... | |
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