Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat... The Papaw Thicket - Page 61by Paul Griswold Huston - 1906Full view - About this book
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...this is the stuff of which any sound democracy must be made. So of this stormy evening he writes : "Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...In from all the world without , We eat the clean-winged hearth shout. Content to let the. north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before ne beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a loader blast Shook beam and rafter... | |
| American literature - 1866 - 470 pages
...And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; — " Before such a fire the author tells us: "Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and raftet as it passed, The merrier up Нз roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. What... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
| 1866 - 950 pages
...And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ;— " Before such a fire the author tells us: " Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let¿he north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
| Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...in from all the world without, We sat the clata-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red...before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat g And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught... | |
| Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 372 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where'er it fell To make the coldness visible. 2. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
| James Madison Watson - Readers - 1868 - 314 pages
...sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. 3. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged...roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red l6gs before us beat The fr6st-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam... | |
| Universalism - 1868 - 1048 pages
...winter night in-doors, the storm raging, the cold increasing, and the drifts deepening : " Shut In (torn all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth...wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red-lopi before us beat The front-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam... | |
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