 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 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, Hiid just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,— When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their head*; And Mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just...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, Grave the lustre of... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1878 - 874 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...the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I Hew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads ; And mamma in kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains...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. 2. Away to the window I flew... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 450 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 a long winter nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 510 pages
...their heads ; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 784 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...Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, — AVheii out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.... | |
 | Carols - 1879 - 140 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...cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's napWhen out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 152 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 a long winter nap, — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - Children's poetry - 1879 - 354 pages
...their heads: And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter nap, — When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and... | |
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