 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
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...whirl-dance of the blinding storm, 35 As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the wing&l snow : And ere the early bedtime came The white drift...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts 40 Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 234 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 bedtime came The...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... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1880 - 242 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 bedtime came The...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early Iwdtime kness flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - Birthday books - 1880 - 300 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...storm roared on : The morning broke without a sun ; All day the hoary meteor fell, And when the second morning shone We looked upon a world unknown ;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 530 pages
...the swarm, And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and reerossed the winged snow : And ere the early bedtime came The...window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line Josts in like tall and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on : The morning broke without... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1880 - 352 pages
...fro, Cr6ssed and recr6ssed the winged snow : And ere the early bed-time came The white drift filled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothesline posts Looked in like tall and slieeted ghosts. 1 Francis WP Greenwood, 1797, and died in that city Aug. 2, DD, an American clergyman... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...piece have been culled: 1. A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm. 2. And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 3. How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on! WHITTIER. 4. And heard... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1881 - 1078 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...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, Aa zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winged snow : And ere the early bedtime came The...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... | |
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