 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...tombstones say f Read on the hearts that love ns still, Hie jacet Joe. Hie jace t Bill. OLD IRONSIDES. iu the sky; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1969 - 82 páginas
...be broken up for scrap, an effective measure to save her was Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring lines : "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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."... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 páginas
...Holmes wrote out this copy of the poem in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! / Long has it waved...see /That banner in the sky; / Beneath it rung the battle shout, / And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 páginas
...in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign dou>n! / Long has it waved on high,/ And many an eye has danced...see /That banner in the sky: / Beneath it rung the battle shout,/ And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...Where I cling. (1. 43-48) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaPON; NAAL-1; PoLF; PWR; WBLP Old Ironsides 17 e such by love; Call her one, me another fly. We're...too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the (1. 1—4) 18 O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the... | |
 | Bill Lawrence - 1995 - 286 páginas
...scuttle her in 1830, but a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes whipped up public sentiment. The poem began: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. The Constitution still is a commissioned ship of the United States Navy, listed on the rolls as the... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 páginas
...degrees. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1895, the year following his death. OLD IRONSIDES Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 páginas
...nation and the ship was saved. Her ensign still flies and she can still he viewed in Boston Harbor.) Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 páginas
...eye I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. OLD IRONSIDES Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...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... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 páginas
...members survived. His protest against the dismantling of the old ship begins with the incendiary lines: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...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... | |
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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... 
