 | Education - 1866 - 538 pages
...The moonlit skaters' keen delight, The sleigh-drive through the frosty nigbt, The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blindman's-buff, And whirling...played the athlete in the barn, Or held the good dame's winding yarn, Or mirth-provoking versions told Of classic legends, rare and old, Wherein the scenes... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...The moonlit skater's keen delight, The sleigh-drive through the frosty night, The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind-man's-buff, And whirling...and forfeits paid, His winter task a pastime made. 35 Happy the snow-locked homes wherein He tuned his merry violin, Or played the athlete in the barn,... | |
 | Education - 1867 - 356 pages
...moonlit skaters' keen delight, • The sleigh-drive through the frosty night,,. The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blindman's-buff, And whirling...played the athlete in the barn, Or held the good dame's winding yan^ Or mirth-provoking versions told Of classic legends, rare and old, Wherein the scenes... | |
 | Henry Martyn Burt - History - 1867 - 294 pages
...through the frosty night, • The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind man's buff, * * And whirling plate, and forfeits paid, His winter...played the athlete in the barn, Or held the good dame's winding yarn, Or mirth provoking versions told " Of classic legends, rare and old, Wherein the scenes... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...droll experience found At stranger hearths in boarding round, The moonlit skater's keen delight, 4. Happy the snow-locked homes wherein He tuned his merry...played the athlete in the barn, Or held the good dame's winding yarn, Or mirth-provoking versions told Of classic legends rare and old, Wherein the scenes... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...sleigh-drive through the frosty night. The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind-man's buff, And whirling plate, and forfeits paid, His winter task a pastime made. 4. Happy the snow-locked homes wherein He tuned his merry violin, Or played the athlete in the barn,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Gift books - 1868 - 76 pages
...The moonlit skater's keen delight, The sleigh-drive through the frosty night, The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind-man's-buff, And whirling...played the athlete in the barn, Or held the good dame's winding yarn, Or mirth-provoking versions told Of classic legends rare and old, Wherein the scenes... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Elocution - 1870 - 204 pages
...sleigh-drive through the frosty night, The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind-man's buff, And whirling plate, and forfeits paid, His winter...played the athlete in the barn, Or held the good dame's winding yarn, Or mirth-provoking versions told Of classic legends rare and old, Wherein the scenes... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...The moonlit skater's keen delight, The sleigh -drive through the frosty night, The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind-man's-buff, And whirling...legends rare and old, Wherein the scenes of Greece and Home Had all the commonplace of home, And little seemed at best the odds 'Twixt Yankee pedlers and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...sleigh-drive through the frosty The rustic party, with its rough Accompaniment of blind-man's-huff, And whirling plate, and forfeits paid, His winter...tuned his merry violin, Or played the athlete in the harn, Or held the good dame's winding-yarn, Or mirth-provoking versions told Of classic legends rare... | |
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Of classic legends rare and old, Wherein the scenes of Greece and Rome Had all the commonplace of home... 
