 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...saved the grand old vessel from destruction in 1833 : " Ay, tear the 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... | |
 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...high, And many a heart has danc'd to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds...deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquish'd foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood ' And waves were white below, No more shall... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Boston (Mass.) - 1838 - 236 pages
...of lofty verse, it must have had a magic power there. " 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 ; Professors in the Divinity School. This gentleman is not unknown to fame, nor unworthy of the fame... | |
 | 1838 - 434 pages
...hoi a force ami power wbicb we have never Been excelled: 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; Eeneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar — The meteor of the ocean air Sluill... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...'Constitution,' from being broken up as unfit for service : ' Ay, tear her battered ensign down 1 Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That ensign in the sky.' The burst of feeling which preserved ' Old Ironsides,' as the ship was familiarly... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...others' dust, Might call a tear on mine. OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tatter'd 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... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...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...deck — once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquish'd foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below — No more shall... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...author is OLIVER W. HOLMES, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Av, tear her tatter'd 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, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck — once... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...old forsaken bough 346 OLIVER W. HOLMES. OLD IRONSIDES." AT, tear her tatter'd 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... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 528 pages
...author is OLIVER W. HOLMES, of Cambridge, Massachuwtta, Av, tear her tatter'd 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, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck — once... | |
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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... 
