 The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...  Poetical Works - Page 353by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1892 - 608 pages
...roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The honse-dog on his paws outspread I.aid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette...simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close et hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matte.- how the night behaved ?... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1892 - 476 pages
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread u* Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette...fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, no The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1892 - 360 pages
...of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over. And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. WHITTIER. The grey sea and the long black land ;... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog, on his paws outspread,...the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark silhouette 1 on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1892 - 474 pages
...tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, J» The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. "What matter how the night behaved ? m What matter... | |
 | Anne M. Prescott - Hawaii - 1893 - 264 pages
...louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog on his paws outspread...apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how... | |
 | 1893 - 780 pages
...clashing horn on horn, Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut bows. ***** " And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons'...apples sputtered in a row, And close at hand, the basket stood With nnts from brown October's wood." Most of Whittier's descriptive poems abound in delicious... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1893 - 252 pages
...draught The great throat of the chimney laughed ; The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the tire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the...for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straggling feet, The mug of cider * simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand,... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 1072 pages
...sitting room, when "Shut in from all the 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 the wall A couchant tiger seemed to fall; and Between the andirons' straddling feet The mug of cider simmered slow, The... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - Calendars - 1893 - 294 pages
...louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog, on his paws outspread, Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And close at hand, the basket stood With... | |
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