 THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with...  Public School Methods - Page 4531916Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Animals - 1875 - 292 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. Prom sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff rails were softened... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1875 - 248 pages
...gloaming, -L And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. 3. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds,... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...beeu heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, 3. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's...to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. 4. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds,... | |
 | Methodism - 1879 - 624 pages
...gloaming. And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. " Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. "From sheda new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Kvery pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds, new-roof d with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff... | |
 | Edward Austin Sheldon - Readers - 1875 - 444 pages
...white. 2. Every pine and fir and hemlock THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 3. From sheds, new-roofed with Carrara,1 Came chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down ; And still wavered down the snow. 4. I stood, and watched from my window The noiseless work of the sky, And the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. And the sudden flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails were softened to swan'sdown, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1876 - 122 pages
...night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and burdock Wore ermine too dear for an earl; And the poorest...elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed with Carrara DICKENS. Came chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff rails were softened to... | |
 | Elizabeth Lloyd - Readers - 1876 - 154 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara * Came Chanticleer's muffled... | |
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