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
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 pages
...when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. 50 Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of...below, — A universe of sky and snow! The old familiar bights of ours 55 Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood,... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...'-,...i.'ttto • ' oF On nothing we could call our own. 50 Around the glistening wonder boot Tlie blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth...universe of sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours 55 Took marvellous shapes; strange domes and towers Kose up where sty or corn-crib stood, Or garden-wall,... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...45 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. 50 Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 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...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... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 pages
...fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, I48 SEVEtf AMERICAN CLASSICS. On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening...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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is duej>est...they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divi l>elow, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of onrs Took marvellous shapes; strangedomesand... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 524 pages
...above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 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... | |
| 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... | |
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