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
| John Burroughs - 1901 - 388 σελίδες
...shook The sunshine from her tresses. SNOW-BOUND By John Greenleaf Whittier |HE sun that brief December 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,... | |
| Alice Rose Power - 1901 - 216 σελίδες
...things beyond our reason or control. — Longfellow. SNOW-BOUND. The sun that brief December day Eose 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,... | |
| Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1901 - 264 σελίδες
...bare. It was not there. But Whittier's " SnowBound " has the same rhythm and idea, said I to myself : The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night. A night made hoary with the swarm And... | |
| Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 σελίδες
...story, Vanity Fair, is called by some Thackeray's greatest novel. 21. Ice costs two dollars a month. 22. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray. 23. He left his sons a plan for future action. 24. He had stiff knees, the puritan. 25. In a little... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1902 - 488 σελίδες
...Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm." — EMERSON, The Snow Storm. THE sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over...circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat,... | |
| Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - 1916 - 784 σελίδες
...they freshness give, And moisture, that the bowery green may live. JOHN KEATS. Snow-Bound (Extracts) 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,... | |
| 1902 - 424 σελίδες
...the White Squadron, the prowess of the American navy was forever established. LXXXV. SNOW-BOUND. 1. 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,... | |
| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 780 σελίδες
...they freshness give, And moisture, that the bowery green may live. JOHN KEATS. r Snow-Bound (Extracts) 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,... | |
| Alice Rose Power - 1902 - 216 σελίδες
...divine foreshadowing and foreseeing Of things beyond our reason or control. — Longfellow. 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,... | |
| Robert Penn Warren - 1971 - 222 σελίδες
...Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm." EMERSON. The Snow Storm. 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,... | |
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