 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...  A School Reader - Page 157by Fanny E. Coe - 1908Full view - About this book
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 pages
..."The Fatherland," "The Vision of Sir Launfal," "The Commemoration Od8." 57. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. 1. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all...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... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 pages
...of striking and beautiful descriptions of natural scenery. He is now (1883) minister to England. 1. THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all...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... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - 1883 - 542 pages
...•—!-•*--!—« BY JAME» RUSSELL LOWELL. /HE snow had begun in tbu gloaming, And busily, all tbu night. Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir und hemlock Wore ermine too denr for an ear), And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridded inch-deep... | |
 | 1910 - 906 pages
...the beauty of winter perhaps the prettiest glimpse to be found in Lowell is in "The First Snow Fall": The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all...twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. Another fragment from Lowell, in less cheerful vein, but a truthful picture of the leafless forest... | |
 | Alonzo Reed - 1884 - 204 pages
...Wilkes'bar re Sau'ger ties* 8 Worcester Direction.—Copy the following, and study the italicized words. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily, all...earl; And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl.—Lowett. Bought are daily rifted By the gusty thieves, And the book ol Nature... | |
 | Alonzo Reed - 1884 - 206 pages
...Wilkes'bar re Sau'ger ties* 8Worcester Direction. — Copy the following, and study the italicized words. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily, all...earl; And the poorest twig on the elm tree Was ridged inch-deep with pearl.— Lowell. Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature... | |
 | 1884 - 780 pages
...big, Or fit to roast or bile or fry, I couldn't find it in this sty! THE FIRST SNOW-FALL.-JR LOWELL. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all...pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for au earl ; And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...choice nature, not wholly deserving A name either English or Yankee—just Irving. THE FIRST SNOW-FALL. The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all...deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, Bore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree From sheds new-roofed with Carrara... | |
 | Mary Abbott Rand - 1884 - 224 pages
...wings were busy enough, the day before Christmas, to make perfect weather; and so, when morning came, " 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 in pearl." enough indoors, the day before Christmas, to make perfect... | |
 | Emily Faithfull - 1884 - 434 pages
...The Ice King had set his seal on land and water, the snow deep on the ground at Poughkeepsie, and " 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.'' When I revisited Vassar in 1883 the spring was far Advanced,... | |
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