So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon... Poetical Works - Page 351by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878Full view - About this book
| 1865 - 838 pages
...however, which we think our readers will prefer, we only give a small fragment of this: " So all nlgbt long the storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with linn Of Nature's geometric tigm, Tn xt firry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...bed-time came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long...Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, it * All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown,... | |
| American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...bed-time came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. " So all night long...spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, la starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone,... | |
| 1869 - 390 pages
...nights," said Uncle Herbert. "Ho-.v it looked on the second morning the poet tells us." And he read — "And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walla of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...bed-time came The whit« drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked ; hi tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All... | |
| American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...bedtime came, The white drift piled the window-frame ; And through the glass the clothes-line posts So all night long the storm roared on : The morning...spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, Jn starry flake and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...bed-time came The whit« drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked still protect me with thy love, And shield me with...power ! CHARLES WESLEY. JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL. starr)' flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the_second morning shone, We... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1874 - 396 pages
...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 2. So all night long the storm roared on, And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the f1rmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 3. The old familiar sights... | |
| Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 3. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun: And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own.... | |
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