 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...  The School Journal - Page 1141895Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 294 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. 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. 3. From sheds new-roofed... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...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. * * -;:• I stood and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. sanct earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. w 4 earl, And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl. From sheds new-roof'd with... | |
 | Henry Francis Harrington - 1880 - 208 pages
...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." high'way be gun' si'lence... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. 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. 3. From sheds new-roofed... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...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... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 pages
...gloaming, And busily all the night, Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. 2. 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. 3. From sheds new-roofed... | |
 | Alonzo Reed - 1884 - 206 pages
...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.— Lowell. Boughs are daily... | |
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