 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...nightly chores, — Brought in the wood from out of doors, Littered the stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herd's-grass for the cows; Heard the horse...his early perch Upon the scaffold's pole of birch, 10 The cock his crested helmet bent And down his querulous challenge sent. Unwarmed by any sunset light... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 314 pages
...Littered the stalls, and from the mows Baked down the heard's-grass for the coirs ; Heard the borse whinnying for his corn ; And, sharply clashing horn...stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut bows." " Within our beds awhile w« heard The wind that round the gables roared, With now and then a ruder... | |
 | American literature - 1866 - 470 pages
...nightly chores, Brought in the wood from out of doors, Littered the stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herd's-grass for the cows ; Heard the horse whinnying for his corn ; And sTiarply clashing horn on horn, Impatient down the stanchion-rows • The cattle shake their walnut... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 994 pages
...nightly chores, — Brought in the wood from out of doors, Littered the stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herd's-grass for the cows ; Heard the horse...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;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...nightly chores, — Brought in the wood from out of doors, Littered the stalls, and from the mows liakeil ld mude hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herd's-grass for the cows : Heard the horse whinnying for his And, sharply clashing horn on horn, Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walont hows; While, peerine from his early perch Upon the MiaflVild's pnle of hirch. The cock his created... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...nature; talent. * GXN'GRENED. Corrupted and mortified. XCIIL — EXTRACT FEOM SNOW-BOUND. WHITTIER. 1. UNWARMED by any sunset light, The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary 1 with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro, Crossed and... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...nightly chores, — Brought in the wood from out of doors, Littered the stalls, and from the mows Kaked SAMU Unwanned by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm And... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...Brought in the wood from out of doors ; Littered the stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herds-grass for the cows ; Heard the horse whinnying for his corn...Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut-bows ; While, peering from his early perch Upon the scaffold's pole of birch, The cock his crested... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...the wood from ont of doors ; Littered the stalls, and from the mows Raked down the herds-grass lor the cows ; Heard the horse whinnying for his corn...Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut-bows; While, peering from his early perch Upon the scaffold's pole of birch, The cock his crested... | |
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Meanwhile we did our nightly chores, — Brought in the wood from out of doors, Littered the stalls, and from the mows Eaked down the herd's-grass for the cows : Heard the horse whinnying for his corn ; And, sharply clashing horn on horn, Impatient down... 
