 | Alexander Lovett Stimson - Express service - 1881 - 452 pages
...croup over, lay dead as a stone, And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. iz. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack boots, let go belt... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...all in a moment his roan Roll'd neck and croup over, lay dead as a «tone ; And there was my Roland the hideous roar, His gory vision down the stream...sent, Down the swift Hebras to the Lesbian shore ? A fuh of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' * Then I cast loose my buff... | |
 | Edward Moxon (and co.) - Readers - 1882 - 580 pages
...all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could...let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer;... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...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 Eoland...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Readers - 1882 - 420 pages
...and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could...eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each hoister let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...for Aix is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us I" — and all in a moment his And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could...red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff -coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1882 - 376 pages
...all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could...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, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could...her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood tn the brim, And with circles of red for his eyesockets' rim. Then I east loose my buff-coat, eaeh... | |
 | P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pages
...to bear the whole weight {j£ra*r ^wn Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, colour. With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim,...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. saddle. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster * let fall, 50 Shook off both my jack-boots, let... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...and all in a moment hie 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...rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fail, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his... | |
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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 to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils... 
