 AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her...  New National First[-Fifth] Reader - Page 338by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...delivered before the Harvard Phi-Beta-Kappa Society, and began : "Ay, tear her battered ensign down. Long has it waved on high, 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 the... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 354 pages
...stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. OLD IRONSIDES. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 250 pages
...— Ay, tear her tattered unsign down ! Long has it waved on high, And man}' an eye has danced to gee That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle...burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished... | |
 | William Gordon McCabe - 1879 - 174 pages
...FITZ-GEEENE HALLEOE. OLD IRONSIDES. [Written with reference to the proposed hreaking-ap of the frigate alim.] Ay, tear her tattered ensign down 1 Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That hanner in the sky; Beneath it rnng the hattle shont, And harst the cannon's roar;— The meteor of... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 152 pages
...stone, But we left him alone with his glory. WOLFE. OLD IRONSIDES. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; (H6) _ c- ~ *=, -rJ ~^ ;_ Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...effigies ' of such a moral and intellectual superiority." Browning died in Venice in 1889. OLD IRONSIDES.1 AY, tear her tattered ensign down 1 Long has it waved...burst the cannon's roar; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...proposed breaking up of the famous US frigate " Constitution."] AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! ʁ3 12 battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...— From. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. 28 OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1881 - 254 pages
...gentleman roared out Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's stirring lines : — Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 pages
...worn-out lyre. August 2, 1881. EARLIER POEMS 183O-1836. OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood^ Where knelt the vanquished... | |
| |
