 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1906 - 404 σελίδες
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare. Lo, here, how I stand ' (and he gazed all around), ' As safe and as steady as if on the ground, Yet... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens - 1906
...to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; 10 With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...Sure, never," he thought, " was a creature so rare, 15 So docile, so true, as my excellent mare ; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, " As... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1907
...thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, " As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1909
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...he gathered the fruit till he took his good fill. 28 "Sure never," he thought, "was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare ; Lo,... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens - 1913 - 338 σελίδες
...erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. " Sure never,"...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer - 1913
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of the steed ; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit till he... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 287 σελίδες
...from the thorns, though he long'd for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, u "Sure never," he thought, "was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915
...thirsty to boot; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916
...thirsty to boot ; He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the...never, ' ' he thought, ' ' was a creature so rare, So docile,0 so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and... | |
 | Emma K. Gordon, Marietta Stockard - 1918
...erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. "Sure never,"...so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how... | |
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He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood, while the creature stood still, And he gathered the fruit, till he took... 
