 Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With...  The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 - Page 399by Frank Moore - 1889 - 560 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1891 - 1404 pages
...And there 'mid the light of the breaking day, The surgeon was fifteen miles away. Under his flying feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed....steed like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, his wild eyes full of fire. Lo! he is nearlng his heart's desire, He is bringing his master into the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire; But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire, He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...Impatient to be where the battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was trained to full play. With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning...ocean 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to fuT play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. 6 Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy...Like an 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning...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, with his... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...of the charger 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, like a barque fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play^ With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning...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,... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning...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... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...calls. Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play — With Sheridan only ten railed away 1 Under his spurning feet the road, Like an arrowy Alpine...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... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning...furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With... | |
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