 | 1898 - 836 Seiten
...that have passed. The whole country knows the stirring poem of "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; Beneath it rung the battle shout. And burst the cannon's roar — The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 398 Seiten
...and, inspired by patriotic feelings, wrote the following poem. 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 ; Beneath it rung the battle shout And burst the cannons' roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | 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 - 1895 - 596 Seiten
...' Constitution,' from being broken up as unfit for service : ' Ay, tear her battered ensign down I 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... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1969 - 82 Seiten
...an effective measure to save her was Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring lines : "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... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 Seiten
...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 on high,/ And many...an eye has danced to see /That banner in the sky; / Beneath it rung the battle shout, / And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 Seiten
...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 to see /That banner in the sky: / Beneath it rung the battle shout,/ And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...Calvinist mode. Alas, there is no sign yet of such a collapse. 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; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...43-48) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaPON; NAAL-1; PoLF; PWR; WBLP Old Ironsides 17 Ay, tear her tattered er one, me another fly. We're tapers 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 Seiten
...a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes whipped up public sentiment. The poem began: 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. The Constitution still is a commissioned ship of the United States Navy, listed on the rolls as the... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 Seiten
...edition of his poems appeared in 1895, the year following his death. 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; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
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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... 
