 I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood; How the flakes were folding it gently, As did robins the babes in the wood. Up spoke our own little Mabel, Saying, "Father, who makes it snow?  The Natural Speller and Word Book - Sivu 48tekijä(t) Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 166 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 sivua
...Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's-down. And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds, Like browu leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood ; How... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 560 sivua
...Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan'«-d»wn, And still tiutiered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden Hurries of snow-birds, " Open me here," he cried, "this treasure-chest ! " •f was done ; and only... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 206 sivua
...Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. How the flakes were folding it gently, As did robins the "babes in the wood. Up spoke our own little... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1893 - 640 sivua
...Snow-fall,'' which reminds him of a great sorrow, and teaches a lesson of patience and trust : — "I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. "I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little head-stone stood; How the flakes were folding... | |
 | Horace Parker Chandler - 1893 - 306 sivua
...chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little headstone stood, How the flakes were folding it... | |
 | Leander Sylvester Keyser - 1894 - 280 sivua
...hen-hawk slides, Twinned in the river's heaven below ; " or this description of a winter scene, — " I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...flurries of snow-birds Like brown leaves whirling by." Hark ! — " All pleasant winds from south and west With lullabies thine ears beguiled, Rocking thee... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1895 - 372 sivua
...benediction to many sorrowing hearts. From the latter we cannot refrain quoting a few stanzas : — " I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...flurries of snow-birds Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood; How the flakes were folding it... | |
 | Marion Daniel Shutter - 1895 - 136 sivua
...Lowell, the "First Snow-fall," recalling a great sorrow, teaches a lesson of patience and trust: " I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work...flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. " I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little head-stone stood ; How the flakes were folding... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 574 sivua
...Chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails softened to 8wan's-dowд And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-bird». Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone... | |
 | Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker - 1896 - 430 sivua
...been heaping hedge and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock, Bore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig...flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little headstone stood ; How the flakes were folding... | |
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