 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...  Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ... - Page 106by William Cowper - 1790 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1829 - 506 pages
...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. This done, and the bard surrounded with means of enjoyment, he directs his sole attention... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829 - 234 pages
...A CONTRETEMS. Non amo tc. MARTIAL. And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, ' To let us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPER. " WILL you take tea or coffee, Mr. Butler ?" said... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...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,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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, iqueez'd... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling, and loud hissing urn Throws up a steaming 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...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,...each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in ; Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate,...on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and, squeezed And bored with... | |
 | William Howitt - Almanacs, English - 1831 - 596 pages
...sofa 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. Such is the BHITISH FIRE-SIDE ! and we love to hear our writers speaking of its pleasures in strains... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a streaming column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So lei us welcome peaceful evening in. Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded... | |
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