 Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, — A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow: And ere the early bedtime came The white drift...  Language Lessons from Literature: Book I-II - Page 272by Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 554 pages
...The gray day darkens to " A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm ; The white drift piled the window-frame, And through...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts." n8 Imagination. The poet's child-vision makes this fancy natural a.nd\famy. not grotesque. The whole... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 542 pages
...horn, Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut bows." The gray day darkens to "A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm; The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 pages
...horn, Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut bows." The gray day darkens to "A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm; The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1886 - 682 pages
...creit'M hclmrt t»Tit And down his qncrnlooa rhsHaafs Mat 286 . • T. l:. Al A u. »I SNOW-BOUND. Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looketi in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 pages
...[Amalthsea, the Goat] holds Apollo, the white snow is seen to fall in flakes." And Whittier, Snow-Bound : — Unwarmed by any sunset light, The gray day darkened...zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the wing&l snow. 72. The spirits described in Canto XXII. 131, as The triumphant throng That comes rejoicing... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 pages
...Goat] holds Apollo, the white snow is seen to fall in flakes." And Whittier, Snow-Bound : — Unwarned by any sunset light, The gray day darkened into night,...with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, AB zigzag WBvering to and fro Crossed and reerosaed the winged snow. 72. The spirits deseribed in Canto... | |
 | Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...the scaffold's pole of birch, The cock his crested helmet bent And down his querulous challenge sent. Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. Study carefully this fine example of description. Be-fore attempting the paraphrase, make as minute... | |
 | M. F. Hyde - 1888 - 246 pages
...wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Beat with low rhythm our inland air. ******* Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 pages
...scaffold's pole of birch, The cock his crested helmet bent And down his querulous challenge sent. VUnwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night,...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...thy stars below in Frederick town! 1863. FROM "SNOW-BOUND." [Snow-Sound. A Winter Idyl. 1866.] THE STORM. As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with... | |
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