 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
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 302 pages
...Joris, for " Aix is in sight!" " How they '11 greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brhn, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. >»_ Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 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...Of the news, which alone could save »Aix from her fat«, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eyesocket's... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...Joris, ' ' for Aix is in sight !" 8. "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Boiled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Eoland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight ! " "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Boiled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!" " How they 'l! greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ;• And...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 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 eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...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...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in... | |
 | Recitations - 1876 - 734 pages
...all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Koland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could...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... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1876 - 216 pages
...Joris, "for Aix is in sight.'" " How they'll greet us I " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled, neck and croup, over — lay dead as a stone: And...weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from its fate, With his nostrils, like pits, full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his... | |
 | George Melville Baker - English poetry - 1877 - 190 pages
...gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight 1 " How they '11 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... | |
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