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... Littell's Living Age - Стр. 2581850Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - Страниц: 274
...delightful hour among the ice-cutters. XXXVIII.— THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. JAMES R. LOWELL. 1. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily, all the night,...heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2c Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - Страниц: 992
...Of Pisa's leaning miracle;" or as it is given in Lowell's lovely poem. First Snow-fall": " The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. ;The beauty of the summer woods, shows them to us in their wintry whiteness : " Hut winter has yet... | |
| Child life - 1874 - Страниц: 300
...live alone To hallow this unstudied song ! — Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...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 crow ; The stiff... | |
| Raby Hume - 1874 - Страниц: 220
...STUDBURT WITH THE VIOLETS, . . . 1 88 ALICE L'ESTRANGE'S MOTTO. CHAPTER I. THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW. '* The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...ermine too dear for an earl ; And the poorest twig in the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl." J|T 'S beautiful ! is it not, mamma ? " said Alice... | |
| 1879 - Страниц: 624
...every season, is exquisitely described by Lowell in the following lines : Voi. IX.— No. 2. "The snow had begun in the gloaming. And busily all the night...the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. "From sheda new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down,... | |
| 1875 - Страниц: 780
...blessing to the Church as well as the community in which it is placed. The First Snowfall. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock Wore ermine too deep for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds,... | |
| Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - Страниц: 444
...the emptiness of life. — Ik Marvel {Donald Cr. Mitchell.) X. — THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. r I iIIE snow had begun in the gloaming, -'- And busily, all the...field and highway With a silence, deep and white. 2. Every pine and fir and hemlock THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 3. From sheds, new-roofed with Carrara,1 Came... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - Страниц: 794
...sky grows clear, When thy merry step draws near. LONGFELLOW : Renouveau : From the French. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Kvery pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1875 - Страниц: 248
...LOWELL. bu|'i-ly high-way' hemlock heaping silence whirling 1. r I ^HE snow had begun in the 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 for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - Страниц: 434
...throbbing lids ; before 't was night Two added provinces blest Dara's sway. THE FIRST SNOW-PALL. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...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 crow, The stiff... | |
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