 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...  Salt Water Bubbles: Or, Life on the Wave - Page 321by John Sherburne Sleeper - 1854 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...cowering foes snail sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. 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... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 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 o'er the brave ; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...cowering toes shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely luestientfer of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; A When death, careering on the gale, > i Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, ' And frighted waves... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...cowering foes shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the bravef When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...flame on midnight's pall ; Then shall thy meteor glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death, 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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...cowering foes shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below 35 That lovely messenger of death. 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, 40 And frighted waves rush... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...best and as glowing an effusion of patriotism as may be readily found in the same compass : " Пa? of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careerins on the gale. Sweeps darkly round the belli«! sail, And frÍL'litcd waves rash... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...perhaps the best and as glowing an effusion of patriotism as may be readily found in the same comrass : " 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 bullied sail, And frighted waves rush... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. 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... | |
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