 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
 | Francis Arnold Knight - Country life - 1889 - 212 pages
...the night, Had bean heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white." " Every fir, and pine, and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl ; And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl." And then before the dawn was clear, ere yet the light of... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 318 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...Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English poetry - 1890 - 560 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...Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's-down And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1890 - 452 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping held and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 316 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...Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1890 - 562 pages
...Had been hmping field and highway THE snow had begun in the gloaming, With u 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. The stiff rails softened to Mwan's-d'swn And Mill fluttered down the suuw. From sheds new-roofed with... | |
 | Joseph A. Graves - 1900 - 170 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...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. — Lowell. XXXIX. 0 for festal dainties spread, Like my bowl of milk and bread,... | |
 | John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 304 pages
..."Iliad" and "Odyssey," Virgil's " -<35neid," Dante's "Divina Comedia," and Milton's "Paradise Lost." From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's...swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow.— Lowell. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character: — Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor... | |
 | Joseph A. Graves - 1890 - 168 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...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. — LOWELL. XXXVIII. /crowd'ed front gloam'ing blos'som sweet bus'i ly fra'grance... | |
 | Lillian Kupfer - English language - 1890 - 184 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. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the... | |
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