American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 305
iend are neither few nor faint,fervent is The Horse of the Desert, from an Arabic poem. One of the most My steed is black — my steed is black, As a moonless and starless night,He was foaled in wide deserts without a track. He drinks the wind in fight;So drank the wind his sire before him,And high… … Catching the Horse. Drawn by Shelton. 1 Like the gazelles his ever-quivering ears,His eyes gleam softly as a womans when Her looks of love are full;His nostrils gape, dark as the lions den,And, in the shock of battle, he uprears The forehead of a bull.His croup, his flanks, his shoulders, all are…
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