The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.


The First Snowfall, st. 1 (1849).

351. The First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900[bartleby.com]

James Russell Lowell Quotes

The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.