 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 678 pages
...striped its pure, celestial "white Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? — Joseph Rodman Drake (1817). Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until... | |
 | Carl Britt Hyatt - Civics - 1956 - 248 pages
...streakings of the morning light; Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? — JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1817) . Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure ; not... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 694 pages
...home ! By angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome. And all thy hues were horn in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? — Joseph Rodman Drakn (1817). Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) EMERSON is best known today as a writer of philosophical essays, but... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. (1. 40—43) 4 oved, if undesired. Flushed and decided, he assaults...235—240) Eliot 161 POETRY QUOTATIONS 137 She turns (1. 58—61) AA; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaFP; GN; OPP; PAH; WBLP AWP; BeLS; BLPA; BoLoP; BrPo; EBVV; EnLoPo;... | |
 | Ellis Merton Coulter - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...StarSpangled Banner ; and let my children's children know that the last words I uttered on earth were — Forever float that standard sheet Where breathes the...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us !"29 The Parson was a great actor; and he knew his East Tennessee audience. Again was the Parson doomed... | |
 | Genealogy - 1897 - 1168 pages
...milky fabric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel...breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's sail beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? MRS. SLOCOMB'S ADDRESS. The address... | |
 | Don Harrison Doyle - History - 2001 - 492 pages
...battle, to strike for our rights, and to return with it, wreathed in victory, or to return no more. 'Forever float that standard sheet, Where breathes...freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner waving o'er us. ' " 73 Individual symbols of loyalty also were worn. Southern rebels wore "cockades,"... | |
 | Hershel Parker - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 250 pages
...said]). Gansevoort also quoted Joseph Rodman Drake's "The American Flag" ("Flag of the free heart's only home, /By angel hands to valor given, /Thy stars have...welkin dome, /And all thy hues were born in Heaven"). He quoted Halleck's "beautiful lines to the memory of Burns," followed by two passages from Byron's... | |
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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... 
