 | Martin Luther Holbrook - 1888 - 256 pages
...country, says : THE APPLE. 131 'And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straggling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood.' " Strangely stimulating is this fruit ! The activity it gives to the blood is fairly contagious. I... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, • , • The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchunt tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 364 pages
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed ; v The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's... | |
 | Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck - 1889 - 470 pages
...delicate and pleasant odor through the room, all aglow with cheerful light. " And for the winter's fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet,...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." If the green wood at any time defied the strong draft of the chimney, a pair of hand bellows, which... | |
 | William Willis Hayward - 1889 - 1304 pages
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. Thv house-dog, on his paws outspread, Laid to the fire his drowsy head; The cat's dark silhouette...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall. And, for the winter's fireside meet. Between the andirons' straddling feet The mug of cider simmered slow. The apples... | |
 | 1889 - 332 pages
...apple store in the old homestead. Whittier recalls the part an apple takes in fireside gatherings : " And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row." With a supply of apples in store, we keep the summer with us, there is the fresh green of May leaves,... | |
 | William Willis Hayward - 1889 - 1296 pages
...draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog, on his paws outspread, Laid to the tire his drowsy head; The cat's dark silhouette on the...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall. And, for the winter's fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1890 - 110 pages
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog, on his paws outspread, Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark...fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close... | |
 | 1891 - 508 pages
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread as Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? us What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our... | |
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... roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed,... 
