 ... rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang,...  English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892). - Page 5511916 - 792 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. x And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. SONG FROM "PARACELSUS." 1 HEAP cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum, and aloe-balls, Smeared... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 pages
...peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, And all I remember is, friends flocking round 55 As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground...than his due who brought good news from Ghent. 60 R. BROWNING. THE SHEPHERD IN WINTER. WHEN red hath set the beamless sun, Through heavy vapours dark... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 280 pages
...good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood ! 10. And all I remember is friends nocking round, As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. ROBERT BROWNING." New Words in this Lessoa Aer'schot Dii£feld Lok-e-ren re-buck-led Aix Ghent Looz... | |
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 46 pages
...length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is friends flocking around, As I sate with his head twixt my knees on the ground ; And no...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. 586160 MOTHER AND POET. DEAD ! one of them shot bv the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1884 - 294 pages
...stood. And all I remember is. friends flocking round, And I sat with his Jiead'lwixt my knees, on Hie ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.' This is the ideal of the relationbetween manandhorse, — the horse serving man to his utmost, lending... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 pages
...laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all 1 remember is — friends flocking round As I sat with...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. THROUGH THE MEITDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR As I ride, as I ride. With a full heart for my guide, So its tide... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood....more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. If Browning's gait seems familiar, that's because both "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The Night Before... | |
 | Bill Moore, David Booth - 2003 - 154 pages
...Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood....more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. Robert Browning Here is how a Quiz Sheet looks. Remember, the children answer in as brief a form a... | |
 | Gerard Hastings - 2007 - 386 pages
...nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. . . . And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. In Browning's famous poem (abridged here) what did Joris, Dirck and our nameless hero really need?... | |
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