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" Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind; And the steed, like... "
J.M. Bellew's Readings from American Authors - Page 49
1879 - 63 pages
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 27

Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...flying before the wind, And the steed, like a barque fed with furnace ire. Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo! he is nearing his heart's desire;...the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, with his wild eyes full of fire, Swept on to the goal of his heart's desire : He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 6 The first that the general saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 83

American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...Alpine river, flowed. And the landscape sped away behind, Like nn ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on,...the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of Btnifrglc-rs, and then the retreating...
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The Progressive Third Reader: For Public and Private Schools : Containing ...

Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a barque fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire...the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 6. The first that the General saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating...
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A Summer Story: Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems

Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 180 pages
...flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire...the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating...
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Lessons in Elocution ...

A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his wild eyes full of fire, But, lo! he is near ing his heart's desire — He is stuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five...
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The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education and ..., Volume 2

Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ¡re, Swept on, with his wild eyce full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire, He is snuffing the smoke of the battle fray — With Sheridan only five miles away ! The first that the General saw were the groups...
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A Summer Story: Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems

Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; SHERIDAN'S RIDE. 77 He is snuffing the...
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The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since: Being ...

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...furnace ire, But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire— Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire. He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the general saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating...
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The Story of the Thirty Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers: By ...

George Whitefield Powers - United States - 1866 - 334 pages
...Alpine river, flowed; And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the wind; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on,...the smoke of the roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. " The first that the General saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating...
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