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... Illustrated Birthday Book of American Poets - Page 1edited by - 1881 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 524 pages
...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...snow: And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled,the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted... | |
| 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...storm, As, zigzag, wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrosscd the winged snow. And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled the window-frame, And... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...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...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:... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1885 - 164 pages
...on the earth ; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. JOB xxxvii. 5, 6. A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance...to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow. SNOW-BOUND. December (Twelfth Month) 22. The upright shall have good things in possession. PBOV. xxviii.... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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