 Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced 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. Her...  The Land We Live in: Or, The Story of Our Country - Stran 205avtor: Henry Mann - 1896 - 336 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 strani
...hiiiii above the fight the lonely bugle grieves. GBENVILLE MELLES. OLD IRONSIDES. Av. tear her tatteml ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an...The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds n • more! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 strani
...yon lone attie, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with hia school-boy scorn. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high,...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 strani
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 strani
...unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. Poetry, a Metrical Essay. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high,...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 strani
...wailing comes, And high above the fight the lonely bugle grieves.' " MELLES. OLD IRONSIDES. AY. tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That hanlier in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle-sheut, And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 624 strani
...Ironsides," which every American school-boy knows. " Aye, tear her tattered ensign down, Long has if waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." The chief naval battle of this year was the battle of Lake Champlain. During the whole spring and summer... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 strani
...[Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate " Constitution."] AT, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high,...meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! lies, Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying... | |
 | 1876 - 504 strani
..." 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 it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 strani
...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 on high,...battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean-air Shall sweep the clouds no more. * William Bninbridge was born in Princeton, NJ. in 1774.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 strani
...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... | |
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