 | 1870 - 588 páginas
...body. In this way an audience has seen declaimed the opening lines of Dr. Holmes's beautiful poem " Old Ironsides:" — "Ay, tear her tattered ensign...an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky," etc. VII. PES — WHAT THE FOOT SAID. SISTER MANUS did me great injustice. I had no idea of hurrying... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 páginas
..." Constitution," so famed in the war of 1812 for her victories over the " Guerriere " and "Java" : OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down !...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
..." From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his schoolboy scorn : — 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 Her deck, once red with heroes'... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 382 páginas
...are green, and their hands are blue ; And they went to sea in a sieve. EDWARD LRAR. 82 SEA AND SHORE. OLD IRONSIDES AY, tear her tattered ensign down !...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 páginas
...midst a horrid wailing comes, And high above the fight the lonely bugle grieves. GRENVILLE .Vi 1.jIx OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down!...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 uo more!... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 páginas
...Ironsides ! From 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...meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more 1 Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er... | |
 | 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...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
