Immortal Songs of Camp and Field: The Story of Their Inspiration, Together with Striking Anecdotes Connected with Their HistoryBurrows Brothers Company, 1898 - 298 páginas |
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... hundred dollars . Still another famous poem of his was called The Steeds of Apollo . In 1794 he produced his earliest ode , Rise , Colum- bia , which , perhaps , was the seed thought 34 Immortal Songs of Camp and Field.
... hundred dollars . Still another famous poem of his was called The Steeds of Apollo . In 1794 he produced his earliest ode , Rise , Colum- bia , which , perhaps , was the seed thought 34 Immortal Songs of Camp and Field.
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... famous song , Adams and Liberty , — which is sung to the same tune as Key's Star- Spangled Banner , or Anacreon in Heaven , - was written four years later at the request of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society . Its sale ...
... famous song , Adams and Liberty , — which is sung to the same tune as Key's Star- Spangled Banner , or Anacreon in Heaven , - was written four years later at the request of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society . Its sale ...
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... famous song The Battle of the Kegs , to the tune of Yankee Doodle . David Bushnell , the inventor of the tor- pedo , in December , 1777 , had set adrift at night a large number of kegs charged with gunpowder , which were designed to ...
... famous song The Battle of the Kegs , to the tune of Yankee Doodle . David Bushnell , the inventor of the tor- pedo , in December , 1777 , had set adrift at night a large number of kegs charged with gunpowder , which were designed to ...
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... famous , also had an interesting selection . Two brothers , Charles and Ferdinand Durang , were actors at the Holliday Street Theater in Baltimore , but were also soldiers . A copy of Francis Key's poem came to them in camp ; it was ...
... famous , also had an interesting selection . Two brothers , Charles and Ferdinand Durang , were actors at the Holliday Street Theater in Baltimore , but were also soldiers . A copy of Francis Key's poem came to them in camp ; it was ...
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... famous Daniel Webster , were camped on one of the islands in Boston Harbor , some of the soldiers amused themselves by adapting the words , - " John Brown's body lies a - mouldering in the grave , His soul is marching on . Glory , glory ...
... famous Daniel Webster , were camped on one of the islands in Boston Harbor , some of the soldiers amused themselves by adapting the words , - " John Brown's body lies a - mouldering in the grave , His soul is marching on . Glory , glory ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Advance the flag American arms army band battle cry Battle Hymn bears a plant Bells of Scotland Blue Bells born Boston boys brave Charles Carroll Sawyer cheer Columbia be slaves composed cry of Freedom dead dear earth bears Emmett Ethel Lynn Beers famous song father flag of Dixie Francis Miles Finch Freedom reigns to-day glory hallelujah grave Gray heart heaven Highland laddie honor hurrah Hutchinson John Brown's body Joseph Hopkinson Jubilee land liberty Look marching through Georgia Maryland melody mother nation ne'er night o'er old camp ground patriotic peace poem popular Rhine rolls its waves sang sea rolls Sherman Shouting the battle sing soldiers sons of Columbia soul is marching South Southern star-spangled banner stars Stephen Collins Foster sung tears thee Thomas à Becket thou Union forever verse Waiting the judgment Walter Kittredge words written wrote Yankee Doodle young
Pasajes populares
Página 160 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 53 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Página 165 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on.
Página 292 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe — Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard — All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard — For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Página 18 - When speaks the signal trumpet tone, And the long line comes gleaming on, Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, Has dimmed the glistening bayonet, Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Página 19 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Página 88 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties...
Página 249 - WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never will be slaves.
Página 207 - is the proud refrain, That baffles minions back amain, Maryland ! Arise in majesty again, Maryland ! My Maryland ! I see the blush upon thy cheek, Maryland ! But thou wast ever bravely meek, Maryland ! But lo ! there surges forth a shriek From hill to hill, from creek to creek : Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland ! My Maryland ! Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland...
Página 74 - Behold the chief who now commands, Once more to serve his country, stands — The rock on which the storm will beat, The rock on which the storm will beat ; But, armed in virtue firm and true, His hopes are fixed on Heaven and you.