 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. IX. Then 1 cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook...Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or X. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 400 pages
...his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall,...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - 1879 - 256 pages
...his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim. And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall,...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear. Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
...his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his, eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat — each holster let...stirrup — leaned — patted his ear — Called my Eoland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang — any noise, bad... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pages
...pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast my loose buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. ames Grant Wilson pet name, my horse without peer, — • Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good,... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. 9. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall,...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...there was my Roland, to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall,...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. 9. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall,...in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Eoland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 pages
...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eyesocket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland hi* pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good, Till... | |
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Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets 
