 He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf — And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.  The Rover - Page 207edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 152 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke,...his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump... | |
 | Carols - 1879 - 140 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke,...head like a wreath. • He had a broad face, and a little round belly, That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 784 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke...his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the The stump of a pipe lie 's tissued flowera,— The violet, the pink, the jessamine, — I pricked them into little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump,... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...like a bow, Aud the beard of his chin was as white as the suow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight iu X ,@ , ( , little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump —... | |
 | Poetic reader - 1881 - 250 pages
...And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, The smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face, and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly ; He was chubby and plump... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - Readers - 1881 - 220 pages
...was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in hisKoeth, And the smoke it-encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump,—a... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pii>e he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled...his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke,...his head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump... | |
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