 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
 | Frank McAlpine - American poetry - 1885 - 446 pages
...bedtime 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...we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder hent The blue walls of the firmament; No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1885 - 164 pages
...(Second Month) 21. He giveth snow like wool : he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16. In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor...second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown. No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! SNOW-BOUND. February (Second Month)... | |
 | American poetry (Selections) - 1887 - 448 pages
...bedtime 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, AH day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On... | |
 | M. F. Hyde - 1888 - 246 pages
...bedtime 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...could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent 1 1 — —— •The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. Bo all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke...looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call cur own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament No cloud above, no earth... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1888 - 534 pages
...bedtime 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...hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, 1Ve looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...bedtime 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...broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with Hues Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 pages
...bedtime came, The white drift piled the window frame, And through the glass the clothesline posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long...roared on ; The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule1 traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake and pellicle,5 All day the... | |
 | Lucy A. Chittenden - English language - 1891 - 196 pages
...Discriminate between marvel, wonder, miracle. Study especially spherule, pellicle, hoary, supernal. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning...glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, Ko cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow! The old familiar sights of ours Took... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1891 - 136 pages
...bedtime 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...second morning shone, We looked "upon a world unknown, £noto--<SF0tmä : Я Cffitmter On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent... | |
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