 | Interesting tales - 1858 - 220 oldal
...the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir-tree and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden... | |
 | 1858 - 158 oldal
...if in quiet homage to the Power that silently clothed the earth in such new and wonderful grace. " Every pine and fir and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl ; And the smallest branch of the elm-tree, Was fringed inch-deep with pearl." And now a heavier gust swept through... | |
 | 1859 - 802 oldal
...gloaming And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a Bilence 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 fringed inch deep with pearl. From sheds, now roofed with Carrars, Came Chanticleer's... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 oldal
...Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock 5 Wore ermine 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 crow, 10 The... | |
 | 1861 - 236 oldal
...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...twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. 202 PICTURES AND FLOWERS. From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 oldal
...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...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 crow ; The stiff... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 oldal
...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 pearl. From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled... | |
 | 1861 - 228 oldal
...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, From sheds, new roofed with Carrara, Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, The rails were softened to swan's... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 oldal
...gloaming, and busily all the night Had been heaping Held and highway with a silence deep and white. 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. I stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 276 oldal
...gloaming, And busily, all the night, Had been heaping field and highway AVith a silence deep and white. 2. 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. 3. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled crow ; The stiff... | |
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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... 
