 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Alexander Graham Bell - 1893
...up its 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...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter's fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider * simmered slow, The... | |
 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - 1866
...up its 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 the wall 18 * A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons* straddling... | |
![Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...](http://bks3.books.google.com.ph/books?id=iAYBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...") | Richard Edwards - 1867
...its 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...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 360mga pahina
...its 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...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood, 4. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 65mga pahina
...up its 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...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's... | |
 | 1868
...fall ; • And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons straggling feet The mug of elder simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And,...October's wood. What matter how the night behaved! What matter how the north-wind raved ! Blow high, blow low, not all Its snow Could quench our hearth-fires... | |
![Independent first[-sixth] reader](http://bks3.books.google.com.ph/books?id=wM1EAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Independent first[-sixth] reader") | James Madison Watson - 1868
...laughed. 4- The house-dftg on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head ; The cat's dark shadow on the wall A couchant ' tiger's seemed to fall ;...for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddled feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 789mga pahina
...up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread f heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the light,...me trees unnumbered rise, Beautiful in various dyes JOHN CRBENLEAF WHITTIM A DROP OF DEW. SEE how the orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into... | |
 | 1876
...speaking of old times in the country, says : u And for the winter fireside meet, Between the andiron's straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood." How sorrowful to think the old-fashioned " apple-cut " is now fallen into desuetude ! At least, it... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1872 - 789mga pahina
...up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread A @ 6 seeiued to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug... | |
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... roar In baffled rage at 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, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed,... 
