 His first and last career is done! On came the troop - they saw him stoop, They saw me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong: They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire, wheel round and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4311819Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bluody thong: They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...and round,— Then plunging back with sudden bound, Ht-aded by one black mighty steed, Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop — they start — they snuff' the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...hide ; They snort — they foam — neigh — swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye. — They left me there to my... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...hide ; They snort — they foam — neigh — swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye. — They left me there to my... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seera'd the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shagpy hide ;... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...wind sings, Fanning the hairs which heave like feather'd strings. They stop—they start—they snuff the air,— Gallop a moment, here and there; Approach,...round and round; Then plunging back with sudden bound, They snort—they foam—neigh—swerve aside — And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from... | |
 | American periodicals - 1891 - 874 pages
...thousand horse, the wild, the free, Like waves that follow o'er the sea. They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire, wheel round and round, do not seem to exaggerate the natural military instinct of the horse. The writer remembers to have... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...Mazeppa and his fainting charger on their pastures : — ' " They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide ; They... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 pages
...that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on : — They stop, — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...round and round, Then plunging back with sudden bound, — They snort, — they foam — neigh — swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1070 pages
...strangely bound along His back with many n bloody thong : They slop — Ihcy slarl — Ibcy snuff Ihe air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire,...Then plunging back with sudden bound, Headed by one Mack mighty steed, Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of while upon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 352 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...hide ; They snort — they foam — neigh — swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye. — They left me there to my... | |
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