 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...  A History of Literature in America - Page 292by Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 443 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...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,...basket stood . With nuts from brown October's wood." This vivid simplicity of description is generally recognized. Less obvious, I think, and less certainly... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...wall 18 * A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons* straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers - 1868 - 314 pages
...couchant ' tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddled feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 6. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | 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,...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved! What matter how the north-wind raved ! Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' n the yellow mountain-heads, Gilds the fleeces of...me trees unnumbered rise, Beautiful in various dyes JOHN CRBENLEAF WHITTIM A DROP OF DEW. SEE how the orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into... | |
 | American literature - 1876 - 612 pages
...dull winter evening when they go round ! Whittier, in speaking of old times in the country, says : u And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood." How sorrowful to think the old-fashioned " apple-cut " is now fallen into desuetude ! At least, it... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...wall A cou chant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fire-side meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. . JOHN G. WHITTIER. PACIFIC COAST SERIES. LESSON LXXV. TOM BROWN AT THE MASTER'S TOMB. £}6n'jured,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. CATHCART'S LITERARY READER. MERIVALE. 1808-1875. AUGUSTUS CJESAR.* IN stature Augustus hardly exceeded... | |
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