 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Afrikaners - 1844 - 438 pages
...HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, ; THE AUTHOR. " Afar in the Desert I lore to ride, With the silent Bosh-boy alone by my side: Away — away from the dwellings of men, By the Antelope's haunt and the Buffalo's glen: By valleys remote, where the Ourebi plays; Where the Gnoo,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1845 - 886 pages
...wild adventure, and voyages and travels in far-off lands. He seems to say : " Alone in the desert 1 love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my...from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen, By valleys remote, where the oribi plays, Where the gnu, the gazelle, and the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...sun, — With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the desert afar from man ! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife:... | |
 | Georg Tams - Angola - 1845 - 362 pages
...to which he most readily agreed. ' Afar in the desert I longed to ride, With the dauntless Benguelan alone by my side : Away — away from the dwellings of men ! By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote where the oribi playa, Where the'gnu, the gazelle, and the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Karroo. 8 Oribi, Sfc — The animals named in this and the next two lines, are all species of antelopes. Afar in the desert I love to ride With the silent bushboy alone by my side : O'er the brown Karroo, where the bleating cry Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively ; Where... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...the sun ; With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the Desert afar from man. Afar in the Desert I love to ride. With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side ; When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught firelock in my hand, — The only law of the desert land ! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent...from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen; By the valleys remote where the oribi plays, Where the gnu, the gazelle, and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...resulted in his return to England, where he arrived on the seventh of July, 1826. AFAR IN THE DESERT. AFAR in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I cling to the past : When... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...shall we not pity those who among pit-falls lose their way home ? AFAR IN THE DESERT. BY THOMAS TRIPLE. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I cling to the past; When the... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 434 pages
...the eagle's speed ; With the death-fraught fire-lock in my band — The only law of a desert land ! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side; Away, away, in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna or Bechuan... | |
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side... 
