 Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster, And as the firelight fell, He read aloud the book...  The Monitor: an illustrated Dublin magazine - Side 1411879Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Forster - 1842 - 450 sider
...Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader « Dickens Was youngest of them all, — *•» Gamp. ' But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with " Nell... | |
 | 1902 - 902 sider
...poem, that " spray of Western pine," which he laid upon the grave of Dickens : — " Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; " The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the -whole camp with ' Nell... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 sider
...heart's somewhere there in the ditches, And you've struck it, — on Poverty Flat. DICKENS IN CAMP. the pines the moon was slowly drifting, The river...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with " Nell... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 sider
...struck it, — on Poverty Flat. DICKENS IN CAMP. ABOVE the pines the moon was slowly drifting, The liver sang below ; The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, , While the whole camp with "Nell"... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 574 sider
...for wealth. Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting, "Dickens The river sang below; In CalnP-" The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting • Their minarets...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall; i LONDON: The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, f ' - "Dickens In... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1872 - 410 sider
...fierce race for wealth. Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew, M And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp with " Nell... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 442 sider
...listless leisure To hear the tale anew ; * Poems. By Bret Harte (Boston: Osgood & Co., 1871), pp. 32-31; "And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; " The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp with ' Nell'... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 440 sider
...leisure To hear the tale anew ; » Poems. By Bret Harte (Boston: Osgood & Co., 1871)', pp. 33-3$ " And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; " The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp with ' Nell'... | |
 | 1884 - 794 sider
...listless leisure, And then, while round (hem shadows gathered f.tster, And as the firelight Jell, lie read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of...from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to <all ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While t he whole camp,... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 432 sider
...Harte (Boston : Osgood & Co. 1871), pp. 32-5. Perhaps twas boyish fancy, — for the reader ' Dickens Was youngest of them all,— But, as he read, from...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with " Nell... | |
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