 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 to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils...  Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women - Page 5521885 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...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 was my Roland...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped loris, " for Aix is in sight! . " How they'll greet us!"—and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over,...blood to the brim, And with 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,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped loris, " for Aix is in sight ! " How they'll greet us !" —...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 - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped loris, " for Aix is in sight ! " How they'll greet us I" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop...could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pita full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...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 was my Roland...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 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 was my Roland...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...in sight ! " V11I. " 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...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. EL. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan, Eoll'd neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...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...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast my loose buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
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