 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...Two added provinces blest Dara's sway. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. Тнк 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 aíi earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 pages
...descriptions of natural scenery. He is now (1883) minister to England. 1. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. 3. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 pages
...Launfal," "The Commemoration Od8." 57. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 1. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night, Had been heaping field and...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. 3. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow; The stiff... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1881 - 438 pages
...struck it — on Poverty Flat. BRET HARTE. THE FIRST SNOWFALL. 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 fur and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl ; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...thus around us every day. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. JAMES R. LOWELL. HE 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... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - 1883 - 542 pages
...•—!-•*--!—« BY JAME» RUSSELL LOWELL. /HE snow had begun in tbu gloaming, And busily, all tbu night. Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir und hemlock Wore ermine too denr for an ear), And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
 | Mary Abbott Rand - 1884 - 224 pages
...wings were busy enough, the day before Christmas, to make perfect weather; and so, when morning came, " Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep in pearl." enough indoors, the day before Christmas, to make perfect happiness for fathers and mothers,... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...name either English or Yankee—just Irving. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 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, Bore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
 | Alonzo Reed - 1884 - 206 pages
...Direction. — Copy the following, and study the italicized words. 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... | |
 | 1910 - 906 pages
...prettiest glimpse to be found in Lowell is in "The First Snow Fall": 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... | |
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THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 
