 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening...  Poems - Page 139by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn '. Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, iqueez'd... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a steaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in ; Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | William Howitt - 1831 - 596 pages
...sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Such is the BHITISH FIRE-SIDE ! and we love to hear our writers speaking of its pleasures in strains... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So lei us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loudhissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | 1832 - 240 pages
...usual. "——Wliile the bubbling nod loud-hissing Urn , rrhrows up a steamy column, and the cops, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each ; So let us welcome peaceful EVENING in." — Cmcpcr. Miss B. Bless me, Miss S ! what a tremendous budget you have laid on the table. Well, let's... | |
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