 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 ページ
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed; The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter's fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider * simmered slow, The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 ページ
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall 18 * A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons* straddling... | |
 | 1866 - 950 ページ
...on Логл, ím).atient down the stanchion-rows The cattle shake their walnut howl. JWore the (ire, the mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row." Speaking of the vanishing away of his family, in which alas! ve can too readily sympathize with him,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 ページ
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 ページ
...fall ; • And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons straggling feet The mug of elder simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And,...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved! What matter how the north-wind raved ! Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 ページ
...passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. 4- The house-dftg on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark shadow on the wall A couchant ' tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between... | |
 | 1885 - 994 ページ
...whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall," — all this is an interior painted by our Merrimack Teniers. His hand grows free in artless delineations... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 ページ
...and rafter as it passed. The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, ace of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow...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 ページ
...speaking of old times in the country, says : u And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, 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... | |
 | 1872 - 900 ページ
...and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, d hide, Thi! seeiued to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug... | |
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Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great... 
