 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, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...more 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...beneath the wave! Her thunders shook the mighty deep, ICHABOD! So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore! The glory from his gray hairs... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee: The harpies of the shore sball pluck The eagle of the sea ! О better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave! Her thunders shook the mightv deep, And there should be her grave: Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." And so on to the grandest verse of all : " O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave. " Null to the mast her tattered flag, Set every threadbare sail ; And give her to the god of storms.... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1880 - 352 pages
...tread, Or know the conquered knee ; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave ; :%;~3Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee : The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! 0 ity 12 1« her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag, Sot every threadbare sail, And give her to the god... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee ; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The engle of the sea! O better that her shattered hulk Should...shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Fail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give, her to the god of storms, —... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 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...Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should he her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, 4nd give her to the god of... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...•whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native shore. ». GOLDSMITH— The Traveller. Line 217. Kail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the Odd of storms, The lightning and the gale. o. HOLMES— A Metrical J&say. Down to the Plymouth Rock,... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 pages
...Radical, with Intervals and M'aves. "O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; j , Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should...be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set even. threadbare sail. And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale." —"CiA/ lroHiidti,"... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 398 pages
...more shall feel the victors' tread, Or know the conquered knee: The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea! O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave! — Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The... | |
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