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
| Martha S. Hussey - 1891 - 158 Seiten
...laughter, not mirthful, but slow, and even solemn, like a wind shaking the boughs of the f6rcst. 4 Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about. The house-dog on his .paws out-spread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
| George Stewart - 1892 - 184 Seiten
...horn on horn, Impatient down the stanchion row's The cattle shake their walnut bows." And this :— " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red long betore us beat The frost line back with tropic heat; And, ever, when a louder blast Shook beam... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1892 - 474 Seiten
...from all the world without, i» We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red...before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; uo And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 408 Seiten
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To 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... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 Seiten
...treacherous sands of sin. Ah ! that thou couldst know thy joy Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! WINTER 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 - 1892 - 392 Seiten
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To 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... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 608 Seiten
...unwurming light, Which ouly seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from nil 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... | |
| 1908 - 582 Seiten
...exceeding and eternal weight of glory. — Dean Farrar. 439 AROUND THE STUDY LAMP. We sat the clear-winged hearth about, Content to let the north wind roar In...pane and door. While the red logs before us beat The frost line back with tropic heat. — Whittier's "Snow Bound." M OT a day passes at headquarters but... | |
| Anne M. Prescott - 1893 - 264 Seiten
...the old rhyme : ' Under the tree When fire outdoors burns merrily, There the witches are making tea.' 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... | |
| Emma Forbes Cary - 1893 - 294 Seiten
...BEOOES. November 13. For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother. 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... | |
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