American History Stories, Volume 3Educational Publishing Company, 1890 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
୧୧ Aaron Burr Abolitionists administration American vessel Andrew Jackson army attack ball bang battle began boat boys brave British vessel Burr called cannon capitol captain commander commodore crew cried Daniel Webster Decatur deck drum enemy England English vessel fight fire flag frigate Guerriere guns Hamilton Harrison Henry Clay hero Highflyer Hooray Hornet hundred Illustration Indians Jackson John Adams John Brown John Brown's body king land Lawrence laws lived looked loved Macedonian Madison Margaret Garner Mexican nation nearer never officers Old Hickory once Ossawatomie President prisoners Proctor quiet reached ready Rebecca Republicans Revolution river River Raisin Rogers Sackett's Harbor sail sailors sent shouted side slavery slaves soldiers Spain squeak Stonington stood stories sure surrender Tecumseh tell terrible Thomas Jefferson took town United victory village Washington Wasp Whiskey Insurrection wonderful wounded Yankee young ZACHARY TAYLOR
Passagens conhecidas
Página 58 - Her 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 feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!
Página 97 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Página 57 - 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 deck, once red with heroes...
Página 137 - Dry thy tears, my poor Ximena; lay thy dear one down to rest; Let his hands be meekly folded, lay the cross upon his breast; Let his dirge be sung hereafter, and his funeral masses said: To-day, thou poor bereaved one, the living ask thy aid. Close beside her, faintly moaning, fair and young, a soldier lay, Torn with shot and pierced with lances, bleeding slow his life away: But as tenderly before him the lorn Ximena knelt, She saw the Northern eagle shining on his pistol-belt.
Página 138 - With a stifled cry of horror straight she turned away her head; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling breath of pain, And she raised the cooling water to his parching lips again.
Página 138 - Spake the mournful Mexic woman, as she laid him with her dead, And turned to soothe the living, and bind the wounds which bled. Look forth once more, Ximena! "Like a cloud before the wind...
Página 57 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Página 138 - But the noble Mexic women still their holy task pursued, Through that long, dark night of sorrow, worn and faint and lacking food. Over weak and suffering brothers, with a tender care they hung, And the dying foeman blessed them in a strange and Northern tongue.
Página 137 - Who is losing? who is winning? are they far or come they near? Look abroad, and tell us, sister, whither rolls the storm we hear. "Down the hills of Angostura still the storm of battle rolls ; Blood is flowing, men are dying ; God have mercy on their souls!" Who is losing? who is winning? — "Over hill and over plain, I see but smoke of cannon clouding through the mountain rain.