 | 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... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 páginas
...their dett:riiiui»M<m of bricking up iLe nation 'ri favorite. AY, tear her tattered ensign down I 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 hero's bleed, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1883 - 338 páginas
...now, and Fame's — One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 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 - 1883 - 396 páginas
...Record . .376 FIKST VERSES . . . .381 NOTES . INDEX . . 3*1 383 EARLIER POEMS. 1830-1836. Jronsftes. AT, 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 398 páginas
...execution was stopped by the deep public feeling excited by the following poem written at that time. 1. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air 2. Her deck — once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying... | |
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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... 
