 Hnw they surged above the breastwork, as a sea breaks over a deck ; How, driven, yet scarce defeated, our worn-out men retreated, With their powder-horns all emptied, like the swimmers from a wreck...  The Holmes Birthday Book - Page 182by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, James McKellar Bugbee, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham - 1875 - 28 pages
...bagonets fixed for storming : It's the death-grip that's a coming, — they will try the works once more." With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...torn and gory — shall I tell the fearful story, Hovr they surged above the breastwork, as a sea breaks over a deck ; How driven, yet scarce defeated,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 638 pages
...bagonets fixed for storming : It's the death-grip that's a coming, — they will try the works once more." With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...they surged above the breastwork, as a sea breaks How driven, yet scarce defeated, our worn-out men retreated, With their powder-horns all emptied, like... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 pages
...Howe, Clinton, and Pigot. It 's the death-grip that 'sa coming, — they will try the works once more." With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...onward, upward toiling, like a dragon's fold uncoiling, — 1 20 Like the rattlesnake's shrill warning the reverberating druml Over heaps all torn and gory... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...I It's the death-grip that "sa coming, — they will try the works once more." With brazen trnmpets blaring, the flames behind them glaring, The deadly...onward, upward toiling, like a dragon's fold uncoiling, — 120 Like the rattlesnake's shrill warning the reverberating il!-run ! Over heaps all torn and gory... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...a dragon's fold uncoiling, — 1 20 Like the rattlesnake's shrill warning the reverberating drum I Over heaps all torn and gory — shall I tell the...fearful story, How they surged above the breastwork, a« a sua breaks over a deck; How, driven, yet scarce defeated, our worn-out men retreated, With their... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...with their bagonets fixed for storming, It's the death-grip that 'sa coming, — they will try the With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...glaring, The deadly wall before them, in close array the/ come; Still onward, upward toiling, like a dragon's fold uncoiling, — Like the rattlesnake's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...fixed for storming : It 's the death-grip that 'sa coming, — they will try the works once more." With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...tell the fearful story, How they surged above the breast- work, as a sea breaks over a deck; How, driven, yet scarce defeated, our worn-out men retreated,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 48 pages
...for storming: 4 It's the death-grip that's a coming, — they will try V the works once more." £" With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...onward, upward toiling, like a dragon's fold uncoiling, — T 120 Like the rattlesnake's shrill warning the reverberating drum! How they surged above the breastwork,... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 pages
...fixed for storming: It's the death-grip that's a coming, — they will try the works once more." 30. With brazen trumpets blaring, the flames behind them...rattlesnake's shrill warning the reverberating drum ! 31. How they surged above the breastwork, as a sea breaks o'er a deck; How, driven, yet scarce defeated,... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 pages
...glistened, as we looked far down and listened To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers. Over heaps all torn and gory — shall I tell the...How they surged above the breastwork as a sea breaks o'er a deck; How, driven,, yet scarce defeated, our worn-out men retreated, With their powder-horns... | |
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