 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - Sea poetry - 1874 - 248 pages
...are green, and their hands are blue ; And they went to sea in a sieve. EDWARD LEAR. OLD IRONSIDES. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. Poetry, a Metrieal Essay. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...hiiiii above the fight the lonely bugle grieves. GBENVILLE MELLES. OLD IRONSIDES. Av. tear her tatteml ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an...The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds n • more! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...Ironsides ! From yon lone attie, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with hia 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. Poetry, a Metrical Essay. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...bliss for evermore. Amen. Amen. OLD IRONSIDES. [OW HOLMES. S« Poge 30, Vol. II Y, tear her tatter'd ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many an...danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rang the bnttle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...horrid wailing comes, And high above the fight the lonely bugle grieves.' " MELLES. OLD IRONSIDES. AY. tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That hanlier in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle-sheut, And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...Ironsides," which every American school-boy knows. " Aye, tear her tattered ensign down, Long has if waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." The chief naval battle of this year was the battle of Lake Champlain. During the whole spring and summer... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...IRONSIDES." [Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate " Constitution."] AT, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! lies, Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying... | |
 | Sea stories - 1876 - 504 pages
..." OLD IRONSIDES."* Ay ! pull her lettered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, Ami many a heart 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... | |
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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... 
