 All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky...  Primary Education - Page 3481899Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with linn Of Nature's geometric tigm, Tn xt firry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone. We looked npon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue... | |
 | 1866 - 976 pages
...The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, la starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor...of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow 1 The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1866 - 840 pages
...shut in by a snow-storm, and of the path-cleaving labors of the day following. " All day the heavy meteor fell; And when the second morning shone, We...world unknown, On nothing we could call our own." » • » • 4 • " We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A... | |
 | 1866 - 950 pages
...about to build the tabernacle, the poet took his copy, and formed his idea of the Snow Bound, when, " Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament ; No cloud above, no earth below — A universe of sky and snow !" And the inmates of the house were completely isolated from the external... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, it * All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown,... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...and engage : — So all night long the storm roared on ; The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs,...of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pages
...and sheeted ghosts. So all night long the storm 'roared on: The morning broke without a sun ; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs,...of the firmament, ' No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange domes... | |
 | 1869 - 390 pages
...nights," said Uncle Herbert. "Ho-.v it looked on the second morning the poet tells us." And he read — "And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walla of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below — A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...clothes-line posts - Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts. 2. So all night long the storm roared on, And when the second morning shone, We looked upon...of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow ! 3. The old familiar sight of ours Took marvellous shapes ; strange... | |
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