 | Children's periodicals - 1838 - 448 pages
...when, all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads j And rnamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for... | |
 | 1837 - 1322 pages
...when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a... | |
 | American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had jusi settled our brains for... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 1837 - 278 pages
...the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for... | |
 | Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...when, all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse : The stockings were hung by flie chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon...in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse : The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. 103 The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced o'er their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 352 pages
...Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse : The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief and I in my cap, When out on the lawn there arose... | |
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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there... 
