 Each cuff capacious holds the flood; From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees in wintry skies, Or Lapland idol carved in ice.  M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos - Page 105by John Trumbull - 1826 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Trumbull - American poetry - 1820 - 468 pages
...visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood, Each cull" capacious holds the flood ; From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, ' Cliiudian's Gigantomachhi.... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 412 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream ; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
 | 1829 - 426 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream ; 'Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream ; Adowu his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
 | John Trumbull - United States - 1856 - 200 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream ; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
 | John Trumbull - United States - 1856 - 208 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood, Each cuff. capacious holds the flood; From »ose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread, with colors gay, He... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream; Adown his visage stern and grave Roll'd and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end, The tarry icicles descend; Till all o'erspread, with colours gay, He glitter'd to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
 | George Washington Greene - United States - 1865 - 486 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream ; Adown his visage stern and grave Rolled and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread with colors gay, He glittered to the western ray, Like sleet bound trees... | |
 | George Washington Greene - United States - 1865 - 484 pages
...the brim, First met and drank the sable stream ; Adown his visage stern and grave Rolled and adhered the viscid wave ; With arms depending as he stood,...From nose and chin's remotest end The tarry icicles descend ; Till all o'erspread with colors gay, He glittered to the western ray, Like sleet-bound trees... | |
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