 When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!  New National First [-fifth] Reader - Page 338by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...knee; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea! О better that her shattered bulk Should sink beneath the wave : Her thunders shook...there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy Hag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale !... | |
 | 1843 - 482 pages
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 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck 10 The eagle of the sea ! Oh ! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave z 15 Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail ; And give her to the god of storms,... | |
 | Charles Cist - 1845 - 282 pages
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 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 156 pages
...unfit for service ; — a design afterwards happily abandoned in obedience to public sentiment : 0 better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy fl»g, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale ! The... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 pages
...victor':* trend, Or know the conquered knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea 1 ' O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Sut evrry threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms The lightning and the gale ! ' His writings... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...conquer'd knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! O, better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy fl.ig, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms,— The lightning and the gale... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...conqucr'd knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh ! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the most her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail ; And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and... | |
 | One of 'em - 1855 - 340 pages
...shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee ; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! O better that her shattered...shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave ; f Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, —... | |
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