| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven, For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! XLVII. The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger. — AKOSYMOUS. IN Broad street buildings, on a winter... | |
| 1837 - 682 pages
...responded with a quickening pulse, and a prouder feeling, to the closing exclamation : ' Forever wave that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us l' anee. They give a tone to the feelings of a nation ; they pnite the hearts of a people ; and by... | |
| American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, Flag of the free hearts' only home, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? v To the Ursa Major.—HENRY WARE, JR.* WITH what a stately and majestic step That glorious constellation... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...to valour given ; The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? SONG FROM "FANNY." BY FO HALLBCK. YOUNG thoughts have music in them, love And happiness their theme... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1841 - 422 pages
...splendors fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free hearts' only home, By angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er ua ? To the Ursa Major. — HENRY WARE, JR.* WITH what a stately and majestic step That glorious constellation... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...valour given ! I Thy stars have lit the welkin dome | And all thy hues were born in heaven ; | For ever float that standard sheet ! | Where breathes the foe...our feet, | And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! I MOTIVES TO THE PRACTICE OP GENTLENESS. (BLAIR.) To promote the virtue of gentleness, | we ought... | |
| William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...splendours fly In triumph o'er the closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! 167 THE AMERICAN PATRIOT'S SONG. HARK ! hear ye the sounds that the winds on their pinions Exultingly... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valour given ; The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were...born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...home ! By angel hands to valour given ; The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were bom in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? TO SARAH. happy year lias fled, SALL, Since you were all my own ; The leaves have felt the autumn... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...to valour given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us. \ THE BATTLE-FIELD. BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT. ONCE this soft turf, this rivulet's sands, Were trampled... | |
| |