| Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...high, And many a heart has danc'd to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds...And waves were white below, No more shall feel the conqueror's tread, Or know the conquered knee; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the... | |
| American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...high, And 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...deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, No more shall feel the conqueror's tread Or know the conquered knee ; The harpies of... | |
| American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...high, And 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...deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall... | |
| Enoch Cobb Wines - Boston (Mass.) - 1838 - 236 pages
...susceptibility to the influences of lofty verse, it must have had a magic power there. " 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 ; Professors in the Divinity School. This gentleman is not unknown to fame, nor unworthy of the fame... | |
| 1838 - 434 pages
...last btonzos especially hoi a force ami power wbicb we have never Been excelled: 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; Eeneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar — The meteor of the ocean air Sluill... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...breathed a sigh o'er others' dust, Might call a tear on mine. OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many...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 McCarty - 1842 - 528 pages
...sell her timbers. The author is OLIVER W. HOLMES, of Cambridge, Massachuwtta, Av, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many...banner in the sky . Beneath it rung the battle-shout, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck — once red with heroes' blood,... | |
| William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...sell her timbers. The author is OLIVER W. HOLMES, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Av, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many...banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck — once red with heroes' blood,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...patience through life's little day, 13* OLD IRONSIDES.* BY OLIVER W. HOLMES. AT, tear her tatter'd ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the hattle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...high ; And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; 6 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ;— The meteor of the...with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquish'd foe, 6 When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, — No more shall feel the victor's... | |
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