The 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. New Outlook - Page 681897Full view - About this book
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pages
...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...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... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...door, While the red logs before ne beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a loader blast Shook beam and rafter as It passed? The merrier...roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowny head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pages
...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...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... | |
| 1866 - 950 pages
...back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it paaeed, 1866.] [Aug. The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. What matter how the night behaved ? "What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. 3. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, 3. The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...pane and door, While the red l6gs before us beat The fr6st-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed. 4- The house-dftg on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark shadow on... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when ` ` ` \ Z Z9^vW9] _/6" ; What a landscape lies below...intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - 992 pages
...one of those deep, log-heaped fire-places. It was "jolly," as you boys would say, to hear how " When a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...draught The great throat of the chimney laughed." We must not forget one poetic thing that winter does for us all indoors, however humble our dwelling... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat ; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed,...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... | |
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