 A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate...  The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 - Page 24181918 - 4009 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 638 pages
...gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns ! A hurry of hoofs in a village street, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark...the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 318 pages
...gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns ! A hurry of hoofs in a village street, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark...the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - Readers - 1878 - 444 pages
...bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns. 9. A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the...That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. 10.... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 446 pages
...in silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread, The watchful night- wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent, And seeming...the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 430 pages
...sombre and still. And lo ! as he looks, on the belfry's height A glimmer, and then a gleam of lighf ! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But...the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1879 - 562 pages
...bridle lie turns, Hut lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns ! Л hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the...the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, Ami beneath... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...lingers and gazes ; till, full on his sight, a second lamp in the belfry burns! A hurry of hoofs in the village street — a shape in the moonlight — a...through the gloom and the light, the fate of a Nation waa riding that night; and the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, kindled the land into... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 584 pages
...on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel s tread, Tlie watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from...the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1880 - 686 pages
...And turned and tightened his saddle-girth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves...the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame" with ite heat, He has left the village and monnted the steep, And beneath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 pages
...And turned and tightened his saddle-girth ; Bnt mostly he watched with eager search The belfry tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves...the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath... | |
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