 | 1819 - 480 pages
...cowering foes shall sink 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 Death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail. And frighted 'waves rush wildly back,... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pages
...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 round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back,... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...almost be supposed to be from a different hand. The images contained in the lines, When Death careering on the gale Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,...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
...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 round the bellied sail. And frightened waves rush wildly back... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 pages
...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,...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
 | 1835 - 320 pages
...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 round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...! Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave, Thy rtars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,...Before the broadside's reeling rack, — The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly, In... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pages
...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 round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1836 - 262 pages
...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 round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1837 - 278 pages
...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,...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
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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... 
