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Página 14
W HEN Freedom , from her mountain height , V Unfurled her standard to the air ,
She tore the azure robe of night , And set the stars of glory there . She mingled
with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies , And striped its pure ,
celestial ...
W HEN Freedom , from her mountain height , V Unfurled her standard to the air ,
She tore the azure robe of night , And set the stars of glory there . She mingled
with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies , And striped its pure ,
celestial ...
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Flag of the seas ! on ocean ' s wave Thy stars shall glitter o ' er the brave , When
Death , careering on the gale , Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail , And frighted
waves rush wildly back , Before the broadside ' s reeling rack , Each dying ...
Flag of the seas ! on ocean ' s wave Thy stars shall glitter o ' er the brave , When
Death , careering on the gale , Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail , And frighted
waves rush wildly back , Before the broadside ' s reeling rack , Each dying ...
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Thy stars have lit the welkin dome , And all thy hues were born in Heaven . .
Forever float that standard sheet , Where breathes the foe but falls before us ,
With Freedom ' s soil beneath our feet , , And Freedom ' s banner streaming o ' er
us !
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome , And all thy hues were born in Heaven . .
Forever float that standard sheet , Where breathes the foe but falls before us ,
With Freedom ' s soil beneath our feet , , And Freedom ' s banner streaming o ' er
us !
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Farewell to love : Henceforth , let venerable oaths of men , And women ' s vows ,
though all the stars of Heaven Were listening , be forgotten , - light as dust ! True ,
true , — I should have learnt humility ! True , I am nothing : nothing have — but ...
Farewell to love : Henceforth , let venerable oaths of men , And women ' s vows ,
though all the stars of Heaven Were listening , be forgotten , - light as dust ! True ,
true , — I should have learnt humility ! True , I am nothing : nothing have — but ...
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He took ; and , holding it High toward heaven , as though to meet his star ,
Exclaimed , “ This , too , I . owe to thee , Jaffar ' ! ” . ... Thou comest forth in thy
awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale ,
sinks in the ...
He took ; and , holding it High toward heaven , as though to meet his star ,
Exclaimed , “ This , too , I . owe to thee , Jaffar ' ! ” . ... Thou comest forth in thy
awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale ,
sinks in the ...
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Página 275 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Página 16 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 397 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 298 - To die — to sleep. To sleep — perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...
Página 430 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Página 121 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 392 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 422 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 30 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 412 - ... the vile strength he wields for earth's destruction thou dost all despise, spurning him from thy bosom to the skies: and send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, and howling, to his Gods, where haply lies his petty hope in some near port or bay; then dashest him again to earth — there let him lay!