 And sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow, — While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow ! The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave : For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave....  Select specimens of English poetry - Page 194by Edward Hughes - 1856Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...and stirs the heart as with the sound of a trumpet : — « ' Ye mariners of England! That guard oar native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years...the breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To meet another foe! And sweep through the deep While the stormy tempests blow; While the battle rages... | |
 | 1851 - 382 pages
...the use of it in the following to be referred ? — .... 5 3 The sea it is deep, the sea it is wide, The spirits of your fathers shall start from every wave, For the deck it was their field of fame, and ocean was then1 grave. 5. What is the derivation of infidel, jelly, oxygen, impel, polyglot,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...And ocean was their grave ; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...span; Nor lets the type grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. Ye Mariners of England. Ye mariners of England ! That guard our native seas;...foe! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow : While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. The spirits of... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. &f)f JKariiwrs YE Mariners of England, That guard our native seas...foe ; And sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. HOHENLINDEN. 143... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...set apart for man To love and praise and pray." THE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. YE mariners of England ! Who guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand...foe, And sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow, While the battle rages long and loud, And the stormy tempests blow. The spirits of your... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...adapted to a familiar and even trivial metre. Nothing can be finer than the first and the last stanzas. " Ye mariners of England ! That guard our native seas...breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To match anolher foe ! And sweep through the deep," &c.—p. 101. " The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...Mariners of England. YE mariners of England, That guard our native seas ; Whose flag has brav'd, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! Your glorious...foe! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. The spirit of your... | |
 | William Shannon - 1852 - 294 pages
...deep, While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! For the deck it was their field of fame, And the ocean was their grave ! Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow,... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1852 - 160 pages
...nominative is occasionally met with in poetry ; where, perhaps, as a poetical licence, it may be allowable. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ; For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave. — Camptcll. The cottage homet of England By thousands on her plains,... | |
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