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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAdams and Liberty Anacreon in Heaven Anacreontic Society Anacreontic Song Anchor Tavern Anne Lee appears authorship autograph Bibo Blake Book of Canzonets British broadside Bumper Canzonets catches Charles Durang claim club collection composed To Anacreon copy copyright entry Crown and Anchor Dublin English facsimile fact Ferdinand Durang flag Francis Scott Key Frank Kidson glee Grattan Flood harmonized Henry Historical John Stafford Smith Joseph Hopper Nicholson Judge Nicholson Keim Key's poem letter Library of Congress London Coffee House Longman & Broderip Ludgate Hill M'Henry Mahar melody Musical Miscellany musician national anthem national songs O'Carolan O'er original manuscript Philadelphia Plate Preble printed publication published Ralph Tomlinson reader Report Rowley's Save the King says September sheet song Shippen Smith's Fifth Book Song Book Songster Sonneck Spangled Banner stanza Star Star-Spangled Banner sung tune Vocal Magazine voices W. H. Grattan W. H. Grattan Flood written Popular passagesPage 94 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream. 'Tis the star-spangled banner ! oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Page 79 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming... Page 102 - Oh, say! can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Page 94 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heavenrescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto : Page 79 - And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Page 94 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Page 65 - He went as far as the mouth of the Patuxent, and was not permitted to return lest the intended attack on Baltimore should be disclosed. He was therefore brought up the Bay to the mouth of the Patapsco, where the... Page 76 - ... way to the shore, and wrote it out, as it now stands, at the hotel on the night he reached Baltimore, and immediately after he arrived. He said that, on the next morning, he took it to Judge Nicholson, to ask him what he thought of it ; that he was so much pleased with it that he immediately sent it to a printer, and directed copies to be struck off in handbill form; and that he, Mr. Page 68 - ... flag he had watched for so anxiously as the morning opened ; that he had written some lines, or brief notes, that would aid him in calling them to mind, upon the back of a letter which he happened to have in his pocket ; and for some of the lines, as he proceeded, he was obliged to rely altogether on his memory; and that he finished it in the boat on his way to the shore, and wrote it out, as it now stands, at the hotel on the night he reached Baltimore, and immediately after he arrived. Page 79 - To Anacreon in Heaven, where he sat in full glee, A few sons of harmony sent a petition, That he their inspirer and patron would be ; When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian : Voice, fiddle and flute, no longer be mute, I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot ; And besides I'll instruct you like me to entwine, The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarStar-Spangled Banner, TheRichard Heyman References from web pagesThe Star Spangled Banner: (Revised and Enlarged from the "Report ... Bibliographic information
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