 THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with...  Memorials of a Half-century - Страница 503по Bela Hubbard - 1887 - 581 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Howard Roscoe Driggs - 1917 - 298 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled... | |
 | Calvin Noyes Kendall, Marion Paine Stevens - 1918 - 314 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. SNOWFLAKES OUT of the bosom of the air; Out of the cloud folds of her garments shaken ; Over the woodlands... | |
 | 1918 - 424 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow; The stiff rails softened to swan's-downAnd... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 750 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. | _ Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer's muffled... | |
 | Maud Cuney-Hare - 1918 - 218 страници
...cold, do hang Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Shakespeare. Every pine and flr and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged Inch-deep with pearl. James Russell Lowell. FEUILLES D'AUTOMNE Silence and chill... | |
 | 1918 - 688 страници
...is very expensive.) Who are carls? (Some of the English noblemen.) Why does the second stanza say: "And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl?" What is Carrara? (Explain that this is a very beautiful, fine, white marble found in northern Italy.)... | |
 | Sadie Fuller Seagrave - 1918 - 190 страници
...I write about? The weather first, because we had a glorious snowfall the day before Christmas, and "Every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine too dear for an earl," and yesterday, Christmas morning, the sun shone cold and bright, and a nippy little breeze shook great... | |
 | John Calvin Metcalf, Sarah Withers, Mrs. Hetty S. Browne - 1919 - 458 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping fields and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed with Carrara Came chanticleer's muffled crow, The stiff rails were softened to... | |
 | Charles Ralph Taylor, Louise K. Morss - 1919 - 266 страници
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, While the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep in pearl. PREPARATORY STUDY Find out the... | |
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