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
| 1926 - 780 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... | |
| 1927 - 490 страници
...gloaming, 1 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...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 crow; The stiff... | |
| Bernard Matthew Sheridan, Clare Kleiser, Anna I. Mathews - 1926 - 378 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. These two stanzas are full of picture words: The snow had... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 страници
...been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock s WTore 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... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1910 - 144 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... | |
| 1900 - 838 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... | |
| Arnold Isenberg - 1988 - 362 страници
...response, positive or negative. We thus ensnare even the tamely figurative lines from "The First Snowfall": Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl — while at the same time fencing out, for example, the application of the word cat to the Siamese... | |
| Ken Tate, Janice Tate - 2001 - 164 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... | |
| Jean Phillips - 2007 - 180 страници
...grey-flannel suit and black homburg. James Russell Lowe said it so well when he penned these words: Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear...twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. The current "fad" has brought a change of lifestyle to our small subdivision. Physical fitness gives... | |
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