 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.  Poems - Page 250by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Gifford - 1889 - 304 pages
...the American and the Royalist troops in the War of Independence. Emerson himself sings it : — "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, , "Their flag...April's breeze unfurled, "Here once the embattled fanners stood, "And fired the shot heard round the world." In this Concord retirement Emerson has lived... | |
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - 1889 - 82 pages
...adjourned on March a9th, and in three weeks afterwards the battle of Lexington was fought, and '' By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; * * * The embattled farmers stood In June followed the battle of Bunker's Hill, and the season for... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...Time's noblest offspring is the last. GEORGE BERKELEY. SU>43 AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CO.VCORD MOXCMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. By the rude bridge that arched the...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world. CARMEN BELLICOSUM. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...was chosen to commemorate the occasion by those stanzas which have since become so celebrated : " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." Through the rise of transcendentalism and the rapid spread of... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 pages
...others paused or failed ; The calra star clomb with constant will — The restless meteor flashed and By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the emftattled /armers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.— Emerson. All are arcAitects... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same power that brought me there brought yon. HYMN. Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument,...1836.] BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their fiag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And lired the shot heard round... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1891 - 602 pages
...Lear. 5. Escalus. 6. Sebastian. 7. Pericles. 8. Egeus. 9. Antony. 10. Romeo. 1 1. Eglamour. Pi. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired ihe shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - 1891 - 646 pages
...discourse ; there Hawthorne wrote ; there Thoreau held sweet communion with nature ; and that " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, There once the embattled farmers stood," And not only "fired the shot heard round the world," but flashed... | |
 | Abram English Brown - 1891 - 202 pages
...owned by the town of Bedford is, without doubt, the banner carried by the Middlesex Regiment. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood. Their flag to April's breeze itDfurled, Here once the emhattled farmers etood, And fired the ehot heard rouod the world." —EMERSON.... | |
 | Helen Arnold - 1892 - 84 pages
...case you will see that the participle " being" is understood. EXERCISE VH. Subject Absolute. 1. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag...unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. 2. In an attitude imploring, Hands upon his bosom crossed, Wondering,... | |
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