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... The Natural Speller and Word Book - Sivu 48tekijä(t) Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 166 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 sivua
...the 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...too dear for an 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... | |
| James Jackson Wray - 1885 - 488 sivua
...our 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 - 800 sivua
...\york 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...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... | |
| Bela Hubbard - 1887 - 614 sivua
...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...earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl." LOWELL. the hemlocks were but little less lofty ; while the smaller trees and... | |
| Albert Kendall Teele - 1887 - 758 sivua
...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 the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl." He will give himself a new joy who studies the variety and... | |
| Henry Francis Harrington - 1888 - 212 sivua
...salm'on 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...too dear for an earl ; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl." high'way hemlock pearl poor'est LESSON 119. The meats most... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 sivua
...Give 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...too dear for an 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... | |
| Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1892 - 626 sivua
...gradually lead up 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...too dear for an 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... | |
| Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1889 - 246 sivua
...the 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...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 - 212 sivua
...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...on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl." And then before the dawn was clear, ere yet the light of sunrise lent a rosy flush to the hills and... | |
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