 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1843 - 324 pages
...danced to see Long has it waved on high, • 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! Oh! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep,... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...patriotic lines. Would that the time had arrived when all weapons of war »ere only valuable as relics ! 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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...throughout the reading or recitation of such pieces.] [oro. q.] Ay, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! [I] Long has it waved on high ; And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more !... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...high; That banner in the sky; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And many an eye has danced to see And burst the cannon's roar;— The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Her deck,—once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquish'd foe, 6 When winds were hurrying o'er... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER W. HOLMES. 347 OLD IRONSIDES.* AT, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the Bky ; Beneath it rung the battle-shoot, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1845 - 288 pages
...Daily Advertiser, when it was proposed to break up the frigate Constitution, as unfit for service: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rang the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...space and time. Links realm to realm, and race to race. LESSON LVIII. Old Ironsides* — OW HPLMEB. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! ^ •/ / Long...danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rang the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...silver waters break Into small waves and sparkle as he comes. " OLD IRONSIDES." BY OW HOLMES. 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 cannon's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 pages
...Ironsides ! From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his school-boy scorn. 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...Ironsides ! From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his school-boy scorn. 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... | |
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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... 
