 When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And...  The Croakers - Page 60by Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1860 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1819 - 480 pages
...when the cannon-moutlimgs loud Heave in wild wreaths the battle shroud. And gory sabres rise and fall, There shall thy victor-glances glow, And cowering...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,... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pages
...And, when the cannon-mouthings loud Heave, in wild wreaths, the battle shroud, And glory,—sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's...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... | |
 | 1834 - 430 pages
...wreaths the battle-shroud, And gory sabres rise and fall Like shouts of flame on midnight's pall I There shall thy victor-glances glow, And cowering...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... | |
 | 1835 - 320 pages
...gory sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall! There shall thy victor glances glow; And 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1836 - 262 pages
...glance, And, when the cannon-mouthings loud Heave, in wild wreaths, the battle shroud, And glory — sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's...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... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...gory sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall, — There shall thy victor glances glow, And 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 rtars shall glitter o'er the... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pages
...victor glances glow, And 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 422 pages
...victor-glances glow, And 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 clisu !i, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...victor glances glow, | And 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... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 484 pages
...victor glances glow, And 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... | |
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