| 1865 - 838 pages
...however, which we think our readers will prefer, we only give a small fragment of this: " So all nlgbt long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with linn Of Nature's geometric tigm, Tn xt firry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...snow : And ere the early bed-time came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted...Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, it * All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown,... | |
| American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...snow : And ere the early bed-time came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted...spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, la starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone,... | |
| 1869 - 390 pages
...nights," said Uncle Herbert. "Ho-.v it looked on the second morning the poet tells us." And he read — "And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walla of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...snow : And ere the early bed-time came The whit« drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass len Bryant ; hi tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All... | |
| American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...bedtime came, The white drift piled the window-frame ; And through the glass the clothes-line posts So all night long the storm roared on : The morning...spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, Jn starry flake and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...snow : And ere the early bed-time came The whit« drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass ve, In every trying hour ! 0, still protect me with...power ! CHARLES WESLEY. JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL. starr)' flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the_second morning shone, We... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1874 - 396 pages
...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 2. So all night long the storm roared on, And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the f1rmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 3. The old familiar sights... | |
| Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...tall and sheeted ghosts. 3. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun: And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon...a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. 4. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament; No cloud above, no earth below,—... | |
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