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
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - Страниц: 518
...throbbing lids ; before *t was night Two added provinces blest Dara's sway. 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... | |
| James Jackson Wray - 1885 - Страниц: 488
...pilgrimage end, for the sake of Him who went before us to prepare the way. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest... | |
| 1886 - Страниц: 800
...such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. — Carlyle. THE i'lHST SNOW-FALL. "Tlie snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine :iud lir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl. And the poorest twig on the elm tree "Was fringed... | |
| Albert Kendall Teele - 1887 - Страниц: 758
...nature or art than the symmetry of tree architecture as seen in winter. TREES. " Every pine, and flr, and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And...on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl." He will give himself a new joy who studies the variety and beauty of our leafless trees. THE ELM. The... | |
| Bela Hubbard - 1887 - Страниц: 614
...admirably defined each bending bough, by contrast of its gleaming fringe with the dark shade beneath ! " 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." LOWELL. the hemlocks were but little less lofty ; while... | |
| Henry Francis Harrington - 1888 - Страниц: 212
...clams oys'ters her'ring fish'-mar ket inack'er el pick'er el bass sea'-coast LESSON 118. " The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl." high'way hemlock pearl poor'est LESSON 119. The meats most used for food are beef, veal, mutton, pork,... | |
| Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1892 - Страниц: 626
...to the highest spiritual thought of the Christ-child. ) MOTHER TALKS — A WINTER'S WALK. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails were softened to swan'sdown,... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - Страниц: 656
...grandam kingdom, and it grandam will Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig! " 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... | |
| Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1889 - Страниц: 246
...written work. LESSON XX. Study and commit to memory the following poem : THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 1. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night...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... | |
| Francis Arnold Knight - 1889 - Страниц: 212
...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... | |
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