 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire!" — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash. It rent the...broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the windowsill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. u Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent 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 must,... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
..."—out-blazed the rifle-blast It shivered the window, pane, and «ash ; It rent the banner with scam and gosh. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned fir <mt on the window-sill, And shook it furth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must,... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...met his sight. " Halt !"— the dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire !"— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane, and sash ; It rent 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 must,... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...his sight. " Halt!" — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire !''— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the...broken staff* Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; " Shoot, if yon mnst, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent 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 must,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 188 pages
...his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent 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. A shade of sadness,... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire!"—out.blazed the rifle-blast. It shiver'd the window-pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam 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 a royal will.... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced : the old flag met his sight. 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 must,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1864 - 448 pages
...riflo blast. U shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent thebfiuner with seam and gaah. t Quick, KJ it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned for out on the window sill, And shook it forth with u royal will. " Shoot, If von must,... | |
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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 windowsill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must,... 
