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" Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening... "
Poems - Page 77
by William Cowper - 1826
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The Posthumous Papers, Facetious and Fanciful, of a Person Lately about Town

Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 pages
...and studiousness of attention. The same social poet has well described this fire-side delight:— ' Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.' This winter-pleasure being satisfactorily enjoyed, then come...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...them all ; I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who, with shining face, Sweats in the...
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Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands: During the Years 1823, 1824 ...

Charles Samuel Stewart - Hawaii - 1828 - 226 pages
...luxury of comfort, which the Christian poet must often jfave felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,...
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The Poems of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...them all ; I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,...
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Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands, During the Years 1823, 1824 ...

Charles Samuel Stewart - Hawaii - 1828 - 336 pages
...luxury of comfort, which the Christian poet must often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing uru Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,...
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Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands, During the Years 1823, 1824 ...

Charles Samuel Stewart - Hawaii - 1828 - 428 pages
...luxury of comfort, which the Christian poet must often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,...
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Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands, During the Years 1823, 1824 ...

Charles Samuel Stewart - Hawaii - 1828 - 340 pages
...shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in : Still evening is the pleasantest portion of the day. Our yard...
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Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands, During the Years 1823, 1824 ...

Charles Samuel Stewart - Hawaii - 1828 - 334 pages
...often have felt, before he could so sweetly have sung, Now stir the fire, and close the shutters Past, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer hut not inebriate, wait on each,...
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The Gentleman's Pocket Magazine; and Album of Literature and Fine Arts

English literature - 1829 - 506 pages
...gentle eye upon this wretch," but, having obtained the newspaper, determines to enjoy himself, and cries Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let...cups, That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. This done, and the bard surrounded with means of enjoyment,...
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Peace Campaigns of a Cornet. ...

North Ludlow Beamish - 1829 - 234 pages
...his sleeping master, he adjourned to the drawing-room. CHAPTER X. A CONTRETEMS. Non amo tc. MARTIAL. And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws...cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, ' To let us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPER. " WILL you take tea or coffee, Mr. Butler ?" said...
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