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 First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 394by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884Full view - About this book
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...In starr)' flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the_second morning shone, sow ; This is the field and Acre of our God, This...WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. FOR CHARLIE'S SAKE. THE night ! Tlie old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strangedomes and towers Rose np where sty... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 400 pages
...no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 3. The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty...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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1874 - 396 pages
...tall and sheeted ghosts. 2. So all night long the storm roared on, And when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the f1rmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 3. The old familiar sights... | |
| 1874 - 1002 pages
...while the low oak shrubs rustled their sober brown leaves and shivered at the approach of winter. Now "We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. The old, familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; A smooth white mound the brush heap showed,... | |
| A. W. Patterson - 1875 - 252 pages
...night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow! 5. The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes; strange domes and towers Hose up where sty... | |
| Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1875 - 348 pages
...night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun: And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. 4. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament; No cloud above, no earth below,—... | |
| 1875 - 650 pages
...every familiar object buried out of sight beneath the congealed and hoary breath of the storm God. " No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow." But neither heated nor frozen " terms" ordinarily last many days at a time. Changes are sudden and... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; 398 399 And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could...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... | |
| |