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
| Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1893 - 988 pages
...these books, (c) The industries of Massachusetts. 6. Change the following to connected prose : — So all night long the storm roared on :. The morning...call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The bine walls of the firmament. No cloud ftbove, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow! 7. "Write... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1893 - 700 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...the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shcne, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder... | |
| Education - 1893 - 726 pages
...picture is clearly seen. A quotation from Whittier's " Snow Bound" will serve as an illustration ; So all night long the storm roared on; The morning broke without a sun. ***»*• The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes; » » » » The bridle-post an old... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - Poetry - 1894 - 592 pages
...early bedtime came Lookedjn like tall and sheeted ghosts. Ami through the glass the clothes-line poets So all night long the storm roared on : The morning...Of Nature's geometric signs. In starry flake, and pellica», All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians in literature - 1896 - 392 pages
...the glass the clothes-line posts «o Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. ~r SNOW-BOUND. fl «s In starry flake and pellicle All day th,e hoary meteor fell ; . And, when; the second morning shone. A'- * We looked upon a world unknown, <$ On nothing we could call our own. so Around the glistening... | |
| William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 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...glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cioud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sight of ours Took marvelous... | |
| Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1897 - 248 pages
...Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. Of nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, 45 All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second...could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent 50 The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow... | |
| Education - 1895 - 696 pages
...her standing with every one. The threatened humiliation was absolutely appalling. (To be continued. ) "So all night long the storm roared on; The morning...meteor fell; And when the second morning shone, We lonked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own." — Whitlier's Snow Bound. 302 303... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1898 - 212 pages
...came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts 40 Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long...spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, 45 In starry flake and pellicle All 'day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone,... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...The morning broke without a sun; la tiny spherule traced with Unes Of Nature's geometric signs, La starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor...glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, Xo cloud above, no earth below, — Л mriverse of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took... | |
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