There was never a leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun ; A single crow on the tree-top bleak From his shining feathers shed off the cold sun... The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 109by James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the frost's swift shuttles its shroud had spun ; A single crow on the tree-top...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. II. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his earldom sate ; An old, bent... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingly; The river was numb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun ; A single...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. II. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his earldom sate ; An old, bent... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingiy ; The river was numb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun ; A single...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his earldom sate ; An old, bent man,.worn... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1866 - 68 pages
...boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the frost's swift shuttles its shroud had spun ; A single crow on the tree-top...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. II. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his earldom sate ; An old, bent... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1866 - 342 pages
...leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was numb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun ; A single...bleak From his shining feathers shed off the cold son Again it was morning, but shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up... | |
| James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1875 - 486 pages
...leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was numb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun ; A single...the tree-top bleak From his shining feathers shed 6ff the cold sun ; Again it was morning, but shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 pages
...leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun; A single...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. II. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his earldom sate ; An old, bent... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the frost's swift shuttles its shroud had spun ; A single crow on the tree-top...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. WINTER SCENES. THE keener tempests rise ; and fuming dun From all the livid east,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...leaf on bush or tree, The bare boughs rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had spun; A single...sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a hist dim look at earth and sea. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his... | |
| James Russell Lowell - History - 1876 - 276 pages
...rattled shudderingly ; The river was dumb and could not speak, For the weaver Winter its shroud had Prom his shining feathers shed off the cold sun; Again...up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea. ii. Sir Launfal turned from his own hard gate, For another heir in his earldom sate ; An old, bent... | |
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