 We piled with care our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back,— The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then hovering...  Home Life in Colonial Days - 74. oldalszerző: Alice Morse Earle - 1899 - 470 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 oldal
...its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, 16 And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 oldal
...on its top the stout backstick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1900 - 426 oldal
...its top the stout back.stick; The knotty forestick laid apart. And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then, hovering near, We watched...whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rnde.furnished room Burst, flower.like, into rosy bloom;" These second-period houses at first were... | |
 | 1885 - 994 oldal
...the smothering bank." The building and lighting of the wood-fire, the hovering family group that " watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp...caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 oldal
...top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fore-stick laid apart, And filled between, with curious art, The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 oldal
...apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched the firet ryant ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the Ъаге-boughed... | |
 | 1872 - 660 oldal
...its top. the stout back-stick ; The knotty fbrestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | 1872 - 900 oldal
...its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forcstick laid apart, And filled between with curious art ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-houghed... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 oldal
...its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 oldal
...its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom j While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through thr bare-boughed... | |
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