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
| Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 pages
...; All day the hoary meteor fell, And when the second morning shone We looked upon a world unknown ; No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! У. G. Whittier. Lament who will, in fruitless tears, The speed with which our moments fly ; I sigh... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 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,... | |
| Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 498 pages
...tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on, 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 ami snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up... | |
| Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 454 pages
...speak ; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply. None? Then none have I offended. I have done no Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of...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,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...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...wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud ahove, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 616 pages
...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when (he second morning shone. We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent 1 he blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earih below, — A universe ot sky and snow !... | |
| 1895 - 594 pages
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| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 484 pages
...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. The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty... | |
| Almira Leach Hayward - 1881 - 378 pages
...; All day the hoary meteor fell, And when the second morning shone We looked upon a world unknown ; No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! y. G. Whittier. Lament who will, in fruitless tears, The speed with which our moments fly; I sigh... | |
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