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" Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening... "
The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of popular ... - Page 37
by William Hone - 1837
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Poems of William Cowper, Esq: With a New Memoir

William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...inn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups. bespeaks Salvation, on i.er way" [ T THE HSZ. 121 1 hat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd And bor'd...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeez'd And bor'd...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

1821 - 420 pages
...round ; And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, Which cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in." " The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest; The...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 80

British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed...
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The Brighton magazine, Volume 2

English essays - 1822 - 468 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. This winter-pleasure being satisfactorily enjoyed, then there are the after-pleasures of...
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round ; And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome Winter Evening in. Hpw calm is my recess ! and how the frost Raging abroad, and the rough wind, endear...
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History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical ..., Volume 2

Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 446 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each" — (COWPEE.) We'll write on tea ; — for Waller says, " The Muses' friend, tea, does our fancy aid,...
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The poems of William Cowper, with notes from his own correspondence

William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. Not such his ev'ning, who, with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeez'd And bor'd...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed...
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