| 1819 - 480 páginas
...lofty messenger of death. 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...wildly back, Before the broad-side's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee. And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! dn ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave When Death, careering on the gale, , Sweeps darkly...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack. The dying wand'rer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round...thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. 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 frightened waves rush wildly back, Before the broad-side's reeling rack; The dying wanderer of the... | |
| 1835 - 842 páginas
...spirit, and might almost be supposed to be from a different hand. The images contained in the lines, When Death careering on the gale Sweeps darkly round...ru.sh wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rock, are of the highest order of Ideality. The deficiencies * The expression "woven nir," much in-fined... | |
| 1834 - 430 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. 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 frightened waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack. ^ The dying wanderer of the... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. IV. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round...look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. V. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel... | |
| 1835 - 320 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. 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 frightened waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - 1836 - 108 páginas
...lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round...of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, IV. And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope... | |
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