 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pàgines
...log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fbrestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush...own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed, The Turks' heads on the andirons glowed ; While childish fancy,• prompt... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pàgines
...oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout backstick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush...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... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1900 - 426 pàgines
...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;...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty fore-stick laid apart, And filled between, with curious art, The ragged brush...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 pàgines
...log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, firet red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pàgines
...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...own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed ; The Turks' heads on the andirons glowed ; AVhile childish fancy, prompt to... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pàgines
...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...own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The .crane and pendent trammels showed, The Turks' heads on the andirons glowed; While childish fancy, prompt to tell... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pàgines
...log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forcstick laid apart, A A bare-houghed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. The crane and pendent trammels showed.... | |
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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... 
