 We piled with care our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back,— The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then hovering...  The Arena - Страница 9571896Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 страница
...green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then,...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, 16 And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | 1866 - 470 страница
...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 the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line... | |
 | 1866 - 950 страница
...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... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 страница
...green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout backstick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then,...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 страница
...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 about. Content to let the north wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red-lopi before us beat The front-line... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1900 - 426 страница
...green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back.stick; The knotty forestick laid apart. And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then, hovering...whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rnde.furnished room Burst, flower.like, into rosy bloom;" These second-period houses at first were... | |
 | 1885 - 994 страница
...the smothering bank." The building and lighting of the wood-fire, the hovering family group that " watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp...caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 страница
...huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fore-stick laid apart, And filled between, with curious art, The ragged brush ; then,...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 страница
...huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled at thy firet red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam,... | |
 | 1872 - 660 страница
...huge, and thick, And on its top. the stout back-stick ; The knotty fbrestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then,...rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom ; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed... | |
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