 | Alice Morse Earle - 1898 - 550 σελίδες
...apples sputtered in a row. And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's woods. What matter how the night behaved ! What matter how...north wind raved ! Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow." Nor can the passing of years dim the ruddy glow of... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1899 - 264 σελίδες
...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 throat of the chimney laughed. The house dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 σελίδες
...to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. — ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 8. The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. — JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIKR. 9. 0, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 σελίδες
...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 throat of the chimney laughed ; The house-dog on his paws outspread Lay to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 σελίδες
...frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and tafter 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 his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1900 - 274 σελίδες
...WILSON. 23. I know thou art gone where the weary are blest And the mourner looks up and is glad. 24. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north wind raved? — WHITTIER. 25. Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven, Where the wide storms... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 334 σελίδες
...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 throat of the chimney laughed, The housedog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 σελίδες
...frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1901 - 388 σελίδες
...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 throat of the chimney laughed ; The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
 | 1902 - 594 σελίδες
...spell." But as night approaches and the hearthfire begins to crackle, a different spirit animates us: " What matter how the night behaved? What matter how...north wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearthfire's ruddy glow." Again a change. Those happy memories bring to mind... | |
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And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed... 
