 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
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 strani
...graves of your sires; God, and your native land. />. FITZ-GRZENE HALLECK— Marco Bozzaris. Ay, tear her 7/.6 i. HOLMES— Poetry. A Metrical Essay. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 596 strani
...' Constitution,' from being broken up as unfit for service : ' Ay, tear her battered ensign down I Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That ensign in the sky.' The burst of feeling which preserved ' Old Ironsides,' as the ship was familiarly... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1969 - 82 strani
...for scrap, an effective measure to save her was Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring lines : "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 no more."... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 strani
...out this copy of the poem in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! / Long has it waved on high,/...see /That banner in the sky; / Beneath it rung the battle shout, / And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 strani
...in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign dou>n! / Long has it waved on high,/ And many an eye has danced...see /That banner in the sky: / Beneath it rung the battle shout,/ And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 strani
...cling. (1. 43-48) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaPON; NAAL-1; PoLF; PWR; WBLP Old Ironsides 17 Ay, tear her e; Call her one, me another fly. We're tapers too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the (1. 1—4) 18 O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the... | |
 | Bill Lawrence - 1995 - 286 strani
...1830, but a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes whipped up public sentiment. The poem began: 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. The Constitution still is a commissioned ship of the United States Navy, listed on the rolls as the... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 strani
...complete edition of his poems appeared in 1895, the year following his death. OLD IRONSIDES 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; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 strani
...ship was saved. Her ensign still flies and she can still he viewed in Boston Harbor.) Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And...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... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 strani
...His protest against the dismantling of the old ship begins with the incendiary lines: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And...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... | |
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