 Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag, wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrossed the winged snow: And ere the early bedtime came The white drift...  Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 267by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 413 pagesFull 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
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came...with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, it * All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked... | |
 | American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winge'd snow : And ere the early bed-time came...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...freely ae a river ; and, like the waters of some quiet inland river, they soothe, rest, and engage : — So all night long the storm roared on ; The morning...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... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers - 1868 - 314 pages
...fro, Cr6ssed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came The white drift filled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 1 Francis WP Greenwood, 1797, and died in that city, Aug 2, DD, an American clergyman and 1843. He... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 994 pages
...The gray day darkens to " A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm; The white drift piled the window-frame, And through...clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. The poet's child-vision makes this fancy natural and not grotesque. The whole transfiguration is recalled... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...wavering to and fro Crossed and rccrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came The whit« a ; hi tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrossed the winged snow ; And ere the early bed-time came,...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 a world... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and rvcrosscd flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked... | |
 | 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... | |
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