 Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster; The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were...  J.M. Bellew's Readings from American Authors - Page 491879 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Were beating, like prisoners assaulting their walls, [calls; Impatient to be where the battle-field Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Uuder his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or a trail of a cornet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors...battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was trained to full play. With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. 5 Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed, And the landscape... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their wijls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to fuT... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster....was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. And the landscape gped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...thundering anuth, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping foster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, Under his spurning feet, the road Like an ocean flying... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...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... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...sprung from these swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster,...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... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...comet sweeping faster and faster, Forebodiug to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the stcud and the heart of the master Were beating, like prisoners...was strained to full play — With Sheridan only ten railed away 1 Under his spurning feet the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed; And the landscape... | |
| |
