Poems of Places: AmericaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow J.R. Osgood and Company, 1879 - English poetry |
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... Ships , through a hundred foes , from Saxon lands And spicy Indian ports , Bring Saxon steel and iron to her hands , And summer to her courts . But still , along yon dim Atlantic line , The only hostile smoke Creeps like a harmless mist ...
... Ships , through a hundred foes , from Saxon lands And spicy Indian ports , Bring Saxon steel and iron to her hands , And summer to her courts . But still , along yon dim Atlantic line , The only hostile smoke Creeps like a harmless mist ...
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... ship and fortress gazed with anxious stare , Until the Cumberland's cannon , silence breaking , Thundered its guardian challenge , " Who comes there ? " But , like a rock - flung echo in the 86 POEMS OF PLACES . HAMPTON ROADS, THE ...
... ship and fortress gazed with anxious stare , Until the Cumberland's cannon , silence breaking , Thundered its guardian challenge , " Who comes there ? " But , like a rock - flung echo in the 86 POEMS OF PLACES . HAMPTON ROADS, THE ...
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... shout from out a soul of splendor , Echoed from lofty maintop , and again Between - decks , from the lips of dying men , " Sink ! sink , boys , sink ! but never say surrender ! " Down went the ship ! Down , down ; but HAMPTON ROADS . 87.
... shout from out a soul of splendor , Echoed from lofty maintop , and again Between - decks , from the lips of dying men , " Sink ! sink , boys , sink ! but never say surrender ! " Down went the ship ! Down , down ; but HAMPTON ROADS . 87.
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... ship of our foes Was steadily steering its course To try the force Of our ribs of oak . Down upon us heavily runs , Silent and sullen , the floating fort ; Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns , And leaps the terrible death , With ...
... ship of our foes Was steadily steering its course To try the force Of our ribs of oak . Down upon us heavily runs , Silent and sullen , the floating fort ; Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns , And leaps the terrible death , With ...
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... ships were splintered at a blow , Sails shivered into shreds of snow , And seamen hurled to death below ! Two gods commingling , bolt and blast , The huge waves on each other cast , And bellowed o'er the raging waste ; Then sped , ke ...
... ships were splintered at a blow , Sails shivered into shreds of snow , And seamen hurled to death below ! Two gods commingling , bolt and blast , The huge waves on each other cast , And bellowed o'er the raging waste ; Then sped , ke ...
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Poems of Places: America, Southern States (Classic Reprint) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 70 - To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced: the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Page 239 - Up from the South at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.
Page 31 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 253 - As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God ; I will fly in the greatness of God as the marshhen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies: By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God...
Page 31 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 59 - BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep -are the ranks of the dead ; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one, the Blue ; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 168 - Far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack ; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender, As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep; For their mother — may Heaven defend her!
Page 71 - Over the heads of the rebel host. Ever its torn folds rose and fell On the loyal winds that loved it well ; And through the hill-gaps sunset light Shone over it with a warm good-night.
Page 259 - ... music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad : then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches.
Page 61 - Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue; Under the garlands, the Gray No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever, When they laurel the graves of our dead. Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.