 | Anne M. Prescott - Hawaii - 1893 - 264 pages
...the old rhyme : ' Under the tree When fire outdoors burns merrily, There the witches are making tea.' Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1893 - 252 pages
...this is the stuff of which any sound democracy must be made. So, of this stormy evening, he writes : " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1893 - 240 pages
...in from all the world without, We Bat the clean- winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,... | |
 | Anne M. Prescott - Hawaii - 1893 - 268 pages
...the old rhyme : ' Under the tree When flre outdoors burns merrily, There the witches are making tea.' Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to lot the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | New Jersey. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1894 - 546 pages
...whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rude-furnished room Burst flower- like into rosy bloom. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...before us beat The frost line back with tropic heat." It would be hard to reconcile this generation to the thought of allowing the back to freeze while the... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - Christian life - 1894 - 418 pages
...whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1894 - 582 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat SNOW-BOUND 401... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 670 pages
...painter could catch in definite colors. Quite different from the example given is this from Snow-Bound: " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, The house clog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1896 - 442 pages
...mothers and grandmothers have. It seems an ideal interior with its backlog fire, when Whittier says — " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1896 - 408 pages
...mothers and grandmothers have. It seems an ideal interior with its backlog fire, when Whittier says — " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,... | |
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Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about. Content to let the north- wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat... 
