 | R. L. Paget - American poetry - 1898 - 474 pages
...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compell'd it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray ; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seem'd to the whole great army to say : " I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...declared their antagonism to slavery ; did they remain true to their highest aspirations, they could What was done ? what to do ? A glance told him both,...black charger was gray ; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostrils' play, He seemed to the whole great army to say, ' I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | James Fowler Rusling - Generals - 1899 - 452 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops; What was done ? what to do ? — a glance told him bpth; Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He...black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye and the red nostril's play. He seemed to the whole great army to say: ' I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | Katharine Hamer Shute - 1899 - 248 pages
...— a glance told him both, Then, striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the lines 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked...black charger was gray, By the flash of his eye and the red nostril's play He seemed to the whole great army to say : " I've brought you Sheridan all the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line, mid a storm of huzzas, And the ware of rctreat checked its course there, because The sight of the...black charger was gray ; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostrils' play, He seamed to the whole greet army to say, ' I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | Clinton Scollard - American poetry - 1900 - 250 pages
...striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas, And thewave of retreat checked its course there because The sight...black charger was gray: By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole great army to say : I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Books and reading - 1900 - 504 pages
...terrible oath, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compell'd it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray ; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seem'd to the whole great army to say : "I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 422 pages
...were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops : What was done ? what to do ? a glaace told him both. Then striking his spurs, with a terrible...black charger was gray ; By the flash of his eye and the red nostril's play He seemed to the whole great army to say, " I have brought you Sheridan all... | |
 | Patriotic poetry - 1908 - 228 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops; What was done, — what to do, — a glance told him both. And, striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed...charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and his nostril's play. He seemed to the whole great army to say, "I have brought you Sheridan all the way... | |
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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 troops. What was done? what to do? a glance told him both, Then striking his spurs,... 
