 | 1982 - 348 pages
...to meet the bay-- A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle... | |
 | Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 pages
...meet the bay,— A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 pages
...meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side. Now gazed at the landscape far and near. Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...meet the bay, — A line of black, that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...saddle-girth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry-tower of the old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely, and spectral,... | |
 | Amy L. Cohn - 1993 - 434 pages
...meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...meet the bay,— A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
 | Bill Lawrence - 1995 - 286 pages
...river would know as welL So Longfellow is inaccurate when he says in lines 57-59 of the poem: . . . impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with...heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Revere's problem was not which route the soldiers were taking — he already knew — but how to row... | |
 | William John Bennett - 1997 - 440 pages
...meet the bay — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
 | David Leeming, Jake Page - 1999 - 234 pages
...something far away, A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and...Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;... | |
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Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. 
