 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat...  The Papaw Thicket - Seite 61von Paul Griswold Huston - 1906Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1887 - 448 Seiten
...between, with curious art The ragged brush; then, hovering near, We watched the first red blaze appear; m Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On whitewashed...the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1887 - 500 Seiten
...night of the great storm when the old house was snow-bound: " Shut in from all the world without, Wo sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let...frost-line back with tropic heat. And ever when a luuder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat... | |
 | William Henry Rideing - 1887 - 258 Seiten
...has given us of the family on the night of the great" storm when the old house was snow-bound : — " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 570 Seiten
...Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red...back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast SNOW-BOUND. 333 Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat... | |
 | 1888 - 416 Seiten
...the best beloved. referrest. THE AMERICAN TEACHER. Firtt Girl. — It is in that story he says : " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...North wind roar, In baffled rage at pane and door. What matters how the night behaved, What matters how the North wind raved, Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. A FIRELIGHT INTERIOR. SHUT in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 Seiten
...night Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...high aloof, In its slant splendor, seemed to tell Of Pisa's leaning miracle. A FIRELIGHT INTEKIOR. SHUT in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | William Willis Hayward - 1889 - 1304 Seiten
...Bound," of a fireside on a winter's night in a primitive New England home. Allow me to quote : — •• Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...beat The frost-line back with tropic heat. And ever, while a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great... | |
 | Samuel Fitch Hotchkin - 1889 - 634 Seiten
...making, recall the words of the poet : " Shut in from all ihe world without We sat the clean-winped hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In...rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us heat The front line hack with tropic heat. Ami ever when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it... | |
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