 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed; The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall 18 * A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons* straddling... | |
 | 1866 - 950 pages
...on Логл, ím).atient down the stanchion-rows The cattle shake their walnut howl. JWore the (ire, the mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row." Speaking of the vanishing away of his family, in which alas! ve can too readily sympathize with him,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. 3. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, 3. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Gift books - 1868 - 76 pages
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers - 1868 - 314 pages
...passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. 4- The house-dftg on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark shadow on the wall A couchant ' tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between... | |
 | Universalism - 1868 - 1048 pages
...fall ; • And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons straggling feet The mug of elder simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved! What matter how... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 994 pages
...whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall," — all this is an interior painted by our Merrimack Teniers. His hand grows free in artless delineations... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...and rafter as it passed. The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, ace of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow...flocks, And glitters on the broken rocks. Below m basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. JOHN CRBENLEAF WHITTIM A DROP OF DEW. SEE how the... | |
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The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons... 
