 | Political science - 1819 - 480 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lofty messenger of death. Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When...wildly back, Before the broad-side's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee. And smile to see thy splendours... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...pall ! There shall thy victor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath i'lach gallant arm, that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! dn ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave When Death, careering on the gale, , Sweeps... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back, Before the broad-side's reeling rack; The dying wanderer of the... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...spirit, and might almost be supposed to be from a different hand. The images contained in the lines, When Death careering on the gale Sweeps darkly round...ru.sh wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rock, are of the highest order of Ideality. The deficiencies * The expression "woven nir," much in-fined... | |
 | 1834 - 430 pages
...midnight's pall I There shall thy victor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When Death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly... | |
 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...midnight's pall! There shall thy victor glances glow; And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - New York (State) - 1836 - 110 pages
...cowering foes shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. IV. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter...broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. V. Flag of the free heart's hope... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...pall, — There shall thy victor glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave, Thy rtars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...midnight pall ! There shall thy victor glances glow, And cowering foes shall fall beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave. When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 262 pages
...pall ! There shall thy victor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath, Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death, cnreering on the gale, Sweeps darkly... | |
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Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall... 
