 The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient...  A Summer Story: Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems - Stran 76avtor: Thomas Buchanan Read - 1865 - 144 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1891 - 1404 strani
...And there 'mid the light of the breaking day, The surgeon was fifteen miles away. Under his flying feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed....steed like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, his wild eyes full of fire. Lo! he is nearlng his heart's desire, He is bringing his master into the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 strani
...battle-field Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Uuder his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire; But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire, He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | 1897 - 404 strani
...assaulting their walls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was trained to full play. With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under...ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a barque fed with furnace ire. Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo! he is nearing his heart's... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 strani
...battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to fuT play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. 6 Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy...Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, with his wild eyes full of fire, Swept on to the goal of his heart's desire : He is snuffing the smoke... | |
 | 1864 - 744 strani
...spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed. And the landscape sped away behind, Like nn ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire, — He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 strani
...of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. And the landscape gped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a barque fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 strani
...Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from these swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his wild eyes full of fire, But, lo! he is near ing his heart's desire — He is stuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | 1865 - 594 strani
...calls. Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play — With Sheridan only ten railed away 1 Under his spurning feet the road, Like an arrowy Alpine...wind ; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ¡re, Swept on, with his wild eyce full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire, He is snuffing... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1866 - 368 strani
...Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs thundering South The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 strani
...heart of the steed, and the heart of the master Were heating, like prisoners assaulting their wall», Impatient to be where the battle-field calls. Every...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his wild eyes full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
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