 We piled, with care, our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then, hovering...  Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges - Página 280de Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 468 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 páginas
...And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, 16 And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 páginas
...And on its top the stout backstick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. 3. Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 páginas
...on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fbrestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...£.••*•*-• Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed, The Turks' heads on the andirons glowed ; While childish fancy,•... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1900 - 426 páginas
...And on its top the stout back.stick; The knotty forestick laid apart. And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then, hovering near, We watched...whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rnde.furnished room Burst, flower.like, into rosy bloom;" These second-period houses at first were... | |
 | 1885 - 994 páginas
...the smothering bank." The building and lighting of the wood-fire, the hovering family group that " watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp...caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam," the rude-furnished room thus glorified and transformed, while even "The cat's dark silhouette on the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 páginas
...on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fore-stick laid apart, And filled between, with curious art, The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. i H6AR'y. Whito. | » BOs'KJN$. A kind of half boots. XCIV. — AFTER MARRIAGE. SHERIDAN. [Richard... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched the firet ryant Ъаге-boughed lilac-tree Our own wann hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 páginas
...And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The .crane and pendent trammels showed, The Turks' heads on the andirons glowed; While childish fancy,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched...lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed ; The Turks' heads on the andirons glowed ; AVhile childish fancy,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 páginas
...on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forcstick laid apart, And filled between with curious bare-houghed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed.... | |
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