| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 páginas
...bliss for evermore. Amen. Amen. OLD IRONSIDES. [OW HOLMES. S« Poge 30, Vol. II Y, tear her tatter'd ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many an...danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rang the bnttle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
| 1876 - 504 páginas
..." OLD IRONSIDES."* Ay ! pull her lettered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, Ami many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath...with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the conqueror's... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 páginas
...IRONSIDES." [Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate " Constitution."] AT, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 páginas
...IRONSIDES." [Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate " Constitution."] AT, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 páginas
...forth by a rumor that the frigate Constitution WM about to be broken up as unfit for service.] "aT AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky : Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean-air Shall sweep the clouds no more.... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 páginas
...Metrical Essay" delivered before the Harvard Phi-Beta-Kappa Society, and began : "Ay, tear her battered ensign down. Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." And so on to the grandest verse of all : " O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 354 páginas
...gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. OLD IRONSIDES. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down !...with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the floodr And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 250 páginas
...— Ay, tear her tattered unsign down ! Long has it waved on high, And man}' an eye has danced to gee That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle...with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe. When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 152 páginas
...gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. OLD IRONSIDES. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down !...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; (H6) _ c- ~ *=, -rJ ~^ ;_ Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 páginas
...superiority." Browning died in Venice in 1889. OLD IRONSIDES.1 AY, tear her tattered ensign down 1 Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's... | |
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