 The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from...  San Francisco Municipal Reports ... - Σελίδα 1050των San Francisco (Calif.) - 1911Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 σελίδες
...Around the radiant fireplace, inclosed In a tuuiulruous privacy of .-torui.' i KMERSON, The Snow-Stt/rm. THE sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. 5 Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat,... | |
 | Phebe F. Mackeen - 1879 - 336 σελίδες
...silenced, Nell," said Grace, laughing. " Not quite," said Helen, opening her book and beginning, — " The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray." Helen read, if with less fire than Virginia, with exquisite utterance and appreciation, so that the... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 σελίδες
...black profile spher'ule, a small sphere. stan'chion (-shun), stall for cattle. su-per'nal, heavenly. THE sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat,... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 σελίδες
...black profile. spher'ule, a small sphere. stan'chion (-shun), stall for cattle. su-per'nal, heavenly. THE sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1880 - 232 σελίδες
...signs of the event which the word names. 1. It may be " announced by all the trumpets of the sky," " The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. 2. By the expressions of prophetic... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 σελίδες
...die. WILLIAM COWPIÍR. NEW ENGLAND IN WINTER. FROM "SNOW-BOUND." THF, sun that brief December day Bose replied, It should be better he became her guest ; Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony, W Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat,... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1880 - 236 σελίδες
...1 . It may be ' ' announced by all the trumpets of the sky," " The sun that brief December day Eose cheerless over hills of gray, And darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. 2. By the expressions of prophetic... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 σελίδες
...their triumph and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. ** A WINTER SCENE — FROM SNOW-BOUND. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 342 σελίδες
...other days, with weighty cares, will come, And many trials for us all, alas ! And grief for some. 11. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. — Whittier. 12. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.—... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 484 σελίδες
...fairy who travelled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for her team ! SNOW-BOUND. THE sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All... | |
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