 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...like a barque fed with furnace ire. Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo! he is nearing his heart's desire; He is snuffing the smoke of the...glance told him both; Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath He dashed down the line mid a storm of huzzas. And the wave of retreat checked its course... | |
 | 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...roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. i 6 The first that the general saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops. What... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...like a bark fed with 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 first that the general saw were the groups Of Btnifrglc-rs, and then the retreating troops ; — What was done — what to do — a glance told him... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...like a barque fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire : He is snuffing the smoke of the...roaring fray, With Sheridan only five miles away. 6. The first that the General saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops : What... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 180 pages
...like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire ; He is snuffing the smoke of the...glance told him both, Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...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 smoke of the roaring fray, With...glance told him both, Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...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, With Sheridan only...was done — what to do — a glance told him both, And striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzahs, And the... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...furnace ire, But, lo! he is nearing his heart's desire— Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fire. He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, With...stragglers, and then the retreating troops ;— What was done—what to do—a glance told him both, Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed... | |
 | Louis Napoléon Beaudry - New York cavalry. 5th regt., 1861-1865 - 1865 - 378 pages
...charger, reeking with foam, and covered with dust, had brought him in quick haste from Winchester. What was done, what to do, a glance told him both ; Then, striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1866 - 654 pages
...like a bark fed with 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...glance told him both; Then, striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its... | |
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Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire. 
