| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 Seiten
...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 cat's dark silhouette...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter's fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider * simmered slow, The... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 Seiten
...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 cat's dark silhouette on the wall 18 * A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons* straddling... | |
| 1866 - 950 Seiten
...on Логл, ím).atient down the stanchion-rows The cattle shake their walnut howl. JWore the (ire, the mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row." Speaking of the vanishing away of his family, in which alas! ve can too readily sympathize with him,... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 Seiten
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, 3. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood, 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 Seiten
...its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. 3. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 Seiten
...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 cat's dark silhouette...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's... | |
| 1868 - 1048 Seiten
...fall ; • And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons straggling feet The mug of elder simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And,...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved! What matter how the north-wind raved ! Blow high, blow low, not all Its snow Could quench our hearth-fires... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 Seiten
...laughed. 4- The house-dftg on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark shadow on the wall A couchant ' tiger's seemed to fall ;...for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddled feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand,... | |
| 1885 - 994 Seiten
...whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall," — all this is an interior painted by our Merrimack Teniers. His hand grows free in artless delineations... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread f heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the light,...me trees unnumbered rise, Beautiful in various dyes JOHN CRBENLEAF WHITTIM A DROP OF DEW. SEE how the orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into... | |
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