 TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that ST. NICHOLAS soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds,...  The Rover - Page 207edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
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...be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, — The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, — The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...Away to the window I flew like a flash. Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, — The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...be there ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for along winter's nap — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see... | |
 | Women's periodicals - 1856 - 588 pages
...children were neиh-d all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-pluma danced thro< their head7; And mamma in her 'kerchief and I in my cap, Had just...settled our brains for a long winter's nap— When out in the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter ; Away to the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1857 - 242 pages
...there. 18 The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, — The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, AYhile visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, — CHKISTMAS TIMES. 185 The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow... | |
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...be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plumbs danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I new like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash — The moon on the breast of the new-fallen... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 240 pages
...there. 18 The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads, And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my...Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash, — The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of... | |
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