 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 páginas
...forth by a 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 354 páginas
...gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. 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... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 250 páginas
...— Ay, tear her tattered unsign down ! Long has it waved on high, And man}' an eye has danced to gee That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle...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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 152 páginas
...gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. OLD IRONSIDES. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down !...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; (H6) _ c- ~ *=, -rJ ~^ ;_ Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 páginas
...superiority." Browning died in Venice in 1889. OLD IRONSIDES.1 AY, tear her tattered ensign down 1 Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...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 - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...IRONSIDES." [Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous US frigate " Constitution."] . battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 páginas
...farthest sail unfurls, That stars and stripes are streaming o'er,—= God bless our Yankee girls ! n n 1 deck, once red with heroes' blood Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 páginas
...rhythmic chains, With plaintive measures from a worn-out lyre. August 2, 1881. EARLIER POEMS 183O-1836. 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 páginas
...conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. — From. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. 28 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 werfa hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1881 - 254 páginas
...say it to you now," and the old gentleman roared out Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's stirring lines : — Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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... | |
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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... 
