 Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, 1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art!  The National Review - Page 62edited by - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet-like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age ; thy forehead wra.pt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1911 - 1196 pages
...Thy breath congealed upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows 4 = Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy scepter and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery... | |
 | English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...grave. EVENING IN WINTER OH, Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet-like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along the slippery way, — I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art. Thou hold'st... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...grave. EVENING IN WINTER OH, Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet-like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds.A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1913 - 132 pages
...Olney has the floor : — " O Winter, rnler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snow* Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne... | |
 | James Alexander Roy - Poets, English - 1914 - 196 pages
...circuit, and is still at home. 0 Winter ! ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...peaceful evening in. ... Oh Winter! ruler of the inverted year, 120 Thy scattered hair with sleet like ' + wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy thronel25 A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924 - 1924 - 460 pages
...individual hair of his black beard was coated round his mouth with a thin veneer of hoar-frost, so that, Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, he was partially converted into a venerable patriarch. My sojourn in London this winter was prolonged... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...WINTER, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows 581 * Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urg'd by storms along its slipp'ry way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou... | |
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