So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a... Littell's Living Age - Page 1801867Full view - About this book
| 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
...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning...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
...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. " So all night long the storm roared on : The morning...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
...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. }2 ; 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... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 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 broke without ;i SUM. In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry tlake and pellicle.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. nd shield me with thy 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... | |
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