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... The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Page vby Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 320 pages
...IRONSIDES.' Ay! pull her tattered ensign down, Long has it wav'd on 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 no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,... | |
| 1836 - 694 pages
...Constitution. The author's advice, happily for these times, was not followed. "OLD IRONSIDES. "Ay! pull her tattered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the... | |
| Enoch Cobb Wines - 1838 - 236 pages
...Cabinet, any 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...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
...its subject; the 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...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 Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pages
...the 'Constitution,' from being broken up as unfit for service : ' Ay, tear her battered ensign down 1 Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That ensign in the sky.' The burst of feeling which preserved ' Old Ironsides,' as the ship was familiarly... | |
| 1839 - 580 pages
...to the community is this institution !" Boston Transcript "OLD IRONSIDES."-BY ow HOLM».. Ar ! pull her tattered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky i Beneath it rung the buttle shout, And burnt the... | |
| 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...to see That 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...smile as I do now At the old forsaken bough 346 OLIVER W. HOLMES. OLD IRONSIDES." AT, 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 - 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...to see That 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 324 pages
...AT, tear her tatter'd ensign down! And many an eye has danced to see Long has it waved on high, • That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle...meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Oh! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep,... | |
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