 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 - Seite 5521885 - 648 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 Seiten
...galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur! Your Ross galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix " — for...each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...Aix is in sight 1 " "How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup k at the act. QUEEN. Ah me, what act, That rouis so loud, and thunders in the index ? HAM. Ixsok eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack -boots,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 Seiten
...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 buflf-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1871 - 410 Seiten
...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 buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | 1871 - 314 Seiten
...dome-spire sprang white, " 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. 55 Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name,... | |
 | 1871 - 476 Seiten
...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 buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 Seiten
...fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail,...each holster let fall, Shook off' both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 Seiten
...dome-spire 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,... | |
 | 1872 - 514 Seiten
...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 Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 Seiten
...Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " GALLOP," gasped Joris, "FOR Aix is IN SIGHT!" " How they'1l greet us!" and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck...red for his eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my Imff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the... | |
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