 It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as it fell, from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf: She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you...  Teresina in America - Page 150by Maria Theresa] [Longworth, Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore) - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and risiht He glanced: the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! "...blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. "Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. 4 A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
...Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadncs*, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...and gash. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with...blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...Quick as it fell from the broken staff* Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; " Shoot, if yon mnst, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,"...blush of shame Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | E. S. S. Rouse - United States - 1864 - 346 pages
...leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will : " Shoot, if yon must, the old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she...blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : "Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare.your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 188 pages
...snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | Theodor S Fay - 1865 - 168 pages
...gash. Quick, äs it feil from the broken staff, Dame Barbara suatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with...sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader camc; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. „Who touches a... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if...blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word. " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
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