 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 páginas
...winter's fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider * simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the...basket stood . With nuts from brown October's wood." This vivid simplicity of description is generally recognized. Less obvious, I think, and less certainly... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 páginas
...the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons* straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the...matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Couljl quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow.... | |
 | 1866 - 950 páginas
...it paaeed, 1866.] [Aug. The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. What matter how the night behaved ? "What matter how...the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its enow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow." About almost any transaction that comes before... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 páginas
...the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the 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 páginas
...the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the 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,... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 páginas
...the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons straggling feet The mug of elder simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the...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 ruddy glow ''... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 páginas
...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, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 6. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1868 - 276 páginas
...a place more magnificent than any temple that human hands had ever built tc Deity."— Wilson. 24. What matter how the night behaved? What matter how the north wind raved?—Wkittitr. 25. Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, Where the wide... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The flocks, And glitters on the broken rocks. Below 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... | |
 | 1876 - 612 páginas
...the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And close at hand the basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood." How sorrowful to think the old-fashioned " apple-cut " is now fallen into desuetude ! At least, it... | |
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The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons... 
