 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1891 - 136 pages
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. WHAT matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood, With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ' What matter how the north wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | Martha S. Hussey - Reading - 1891 - 158 pages
...wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; 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. Othere, the old sea-captain, Who dwelt in Helgoland To King Alfred, the Lover of Truth, Brought a snow-white... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - Elocution - 1891 - 420 pages
...the wall A'ckmchant tiger's seemed to fall ; 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. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 368 pages
...to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of eider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And,...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 408 pages
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 392 pages
...dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. What matter how the night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...dark silhouette 1 on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall ; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. 1 Etymology? See WEBSTER. CATHCART'S LITERARY READER HOLMES 1809-1894 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, one of... | |
 | George Stewart - American poetry - 1892 - 184 pages
...cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood." The "Tent on the Beach," which in chronological order follows " Snow-bound," is especially interesting... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1892 - 360 pages
...body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over. And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of...basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. WHITTIER. The grey sea and the long black land ; And the yellow half-moon large and low ; And the startled... | |
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The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons... 
