 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...to ride ! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coining, and look brighter when we com Hush-boy alone by my side, Away, away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...firelock in my hand— But 'tis not the innocent to destroy, For I hate the huntsman's savage joy. Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: By the wild-deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen; Away—away from the dwellings of men, Where the... | |
 | Sir William Francis Butler - South Africa - 1880 - 418 pages
...as he wandered at will through its solitudes. Here is a picture of this desert as he painted it:— Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side. Away, away, from the dwellings of men, By the wild deers' haunt, and the buffaloes' glen; By valleys... | |
 | Thomas Pringle - South Africa - 1881 - 342 pages
...to ride ! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— The...the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away—away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote where... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...to ride! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, on Dee. They row'd her in across -the rolling foam,...the sea. But still the boatmen hear her call the c from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote where... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...the sun ; With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the Desert afar from man. Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side ; When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...with the eagle's speed, The only law of the desert land. With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side : O'er the brown Karroo, where the bleating cry Where the zebra wantonly tosses his mane Of the springbok's... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught flrelock in my hand — The only law of the Desert Land ! Afar...to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side. Away — away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen ; By valleys... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Gypsies - 1882 - 602 pages
...and lead us into its inner life. What constitutes the antithetic charm of those wonderful lines, " Afar in the desert, I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side," but the presence of the savage who belongs to the scene, and whose being binds the poet to it, and... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 282 pages
...to ride ! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught firelock in my hand — The...to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away — away in the Wilderness vast, Where the White Man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered... | |
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With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— The only law of the Desert Land! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: Away—away in the Wilderness vast, Where the White Man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered 
