 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 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... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - Water-supply - 1877 - 676 pages
...sensation to those so beautifully depleted by Pringle, the South African poet, in his lines commencing— ' Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side;' the only difference being that my ' silent bush-boy,' instead of being an almond-eyed, flat-nosed,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...moans the sea,— But none, alas ! shall mourn for me ! RICHARD HENRY WILDE. afar in tije IBesert. AVAR 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... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious poetry - 1877 - 276 pages
...their nest, Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view In the pathless depths of the parched Karroo. Afar, in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by ray side ; Away, away, in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - East Asia - 1877 - 444 pages
...journeys in the bush, wrote a little poem, depicting the joys of that solitary life, which began, " Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy by my aide." ASSIOUT. 23 The donkey-boy is never silent, he is always singing or calling to his donkey,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 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 Bush-boy nlonc by my side, Away, away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - East Asia - 1877 - 446 pages
...journeys in th« bush, wrote a little poem, depicting the joys of tlurt solitary life, which began, " Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy by my ride." ASSIOTTT. • 9t fLe donkey-boy is never silent, he is always singing of galling to his... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...watch in gaunt array, ГШ the gorged tyrant quits his prey. THOMAS PKINGLE. AFAR IN THE DESERT. APAB in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by ray side, When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I cling to the past... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...1 think Thou hast for mo one gleam of gladness more ? " THOMAS PRINGLE. AFAR IX THE DESK XT. AFAP. 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... | |
 | William Bolitho Ryall - 1883 - 474 pages
...him, John burst into reciting some lines of the immortal Pringle Afar in the desert I love to ride. By the wild deer's haunt and the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote where the oribi plays ; Where the gnu, the gazelle, and the harte beest graze. And the gemsbok and eland uuhnnted recline, By the skirts... | |
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side... 
