 | John Townsend Trowbridge - 1869 - 192 páginas
...light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains...The snow sails round him, as he sings, White as the don*h of angels' wings. I watch the slow flakes as they fall On bank and brier and broken wall ; Over... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 páginas
...flakes falter and fall slow ; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains...snow sails round him, as he sings, White as the down of angels' wings. I watch the slow flakes as they fall On bank and briar and broken wall ; Over the... | |
 | 1881 - 200 páginas
...fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; The far-off mountain's misty form Is entering now a tent of storm ; And all...snow sails round him as he sings White as the down of angels' wings. I watch the snow-flakes as they fall On bank and brier and broken wall ; Over the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...flakes falter and fall slow ; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains gray and thin. 4718 JT Trowbridge: MidwinterAnnounced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - 1885 - 178 páginas
...slow ; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; The far-off mountain's misty form Is entering now a tent of storm ; And all...snow sails round him, as he sings, White as the down of angels' wings. I watch the slow flakes as they fall On bank and brier and broken wall ; Over the... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - 1887 - 190 páginas
...light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains...snow sails round him, as he sings, White as the down of angels' wings. I watch the slow flakes as they fall On bank and brier and broken wall ; Over the... | |
 | Joseph A. Graves - 1900 - 170 páginas
...light flakes falter and fall slow ; Across the hill-top, far and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains, gray and thin. CIV. cv. CVI. CVII. CVIII. In the hammer lies the wealth of a nation. Its merry clink points out the... | |
 | Joseph A. Graves - 1890 - 168 páginas
...light flakes falter and fall slow ; Across the hill-top, far and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains, gray and thin. GRADED EXERCISES IN SPELLING. CVIII. In the hammer lie's the wealth of a nation. Its merry clink points... | |
 | Julia Isabel Sherman Hallock - 1896 - 124 páginas
...of the " wild, white bees." They recalled some lines I read when a child. " The far-off mountain's misty form Is entering now a tent of storm, And all...is shut in By flickering curtains, gray and thin." That verse always made an exquisite picture in my mind. The snowfall fl& has continued fitfully until... | |
 | 1898 - 344 páginas
...light flakes falter and fall slow ; Athwart the hilltop, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil ; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains...cheerily the chickadee Singeth to me on fence and tree ; I watch the slow flakes as they fall On bank and brier and broken wall ; Over the orchard, waste... | |
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THE speckled sky is dim with snow, The light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains gray and thin. But cheerily the chickadee Singeth to me... 
