for Aix is in sight! "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like... Class-book of English poetry - Page 289by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight!" " How they'll greet us!" —and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there...circles of red for his eyesockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall. Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 536 pages
...lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which could alone save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. " Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
| 1846 - 534 pages
...greet us," and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And then was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. ' Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
| 1847 - 592 pages
...fronted many a shivering lance, will yet save the lovers, for see how he flies, " With his nostrJs like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-socketó' rim." Do not despair, then, of meeting them next month enjoying the rewaid of their devotion.... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
..." for Aix is in sight ! " VIII. " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...ID eight! ' •' ll i >,*•;« HOW they •fl'gtWtts!'' — andiuTih atabhtem His roan,1'1 Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; •-' And there was my Roland to bear the whale weight Of the news which could alone save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...for Aix is in sight ! " How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland...of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for bis eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
..." for Aix is in sight ! " " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neek and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with cireles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook... | |
| George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 pages
...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim." The good horse Roland reaches the distressed city in time, and is rewarded by the grateful citizens... | |
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