 Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout Of homespun stuff, could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of...  Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl - Page 10by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 52 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 pages
...in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told. The wind blew east: we heard the roar 15 Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong...chores — Brought in the wood from out of doors, ac Littered the stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herd's-grass for the cows; Heard the horse... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pages
...could quite shut out, 10 A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of...snow-storm told. The wind blew east: we heard the roar IJ Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Heat with low rhythm our... | |
 | W. C. Smith - 1913 - 194 pages
...fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. — The Eternal Goodness. The wind blew east ; we heard the roar Of ocean on...throbbing there Beat with low rhythm our inland air. — Snow-Bound. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, Lucy Adella Sloan - 1913 - 100 pages
...however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, 10 That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of...snow-storm told. The wind blew east; we heard the roar 15 Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Beat with low rhythm our... | |
 | 1898 - 574 pages
...stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told. other words and clauses exhibit their proper relations, and the whole difficulty disappears. The text-book... | |
 | 1914 - 442 pages
...stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told, 15 The wind blew east; we heard the roar Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing... | |
 | Agnes Rothery - 1915 - 220 pages
...shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of lifeJblcod in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told. The wind blew east; we heard1 the roar Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Beat with low... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1898 - 142 pages
...could quite shut out, 10 A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of...snow-storm told. The wind blew east ; we heard the roar 15 Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there . Meanwhile we did our nightly... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 pages
...could quite shut out, I0 A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of...we heard the roar Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And fejt the strong pulse throbbing there BeaJ with low rhythm our inland air. Meanwhile we did our nightly... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...could quite shut out, ic A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of...snow-storm told. The wind blew east ; we heard the roar 15 Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Beat with low rhythm our... | |
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