 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 614 páginas
...port. We arc not idle, but send her straight Defiance hack in a full broadside I As hail relximuls fVom a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each...cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain, " Never 1" our gallant Morris repues ; " It is better to hink than to yield I " And the whole air pculed With... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 598 páginas
...oar rilis of oak. Down upon us heavily runs bileni mid sullen, the floating fort; Then comes a [mlf of smoke from her guns, And leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath. From each o|>en port. We arc not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside. ! An h:iil rebounds... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - 1889 - 538 páginas
...ribs of oak. 35 Down upon us heavily runs, Silent and sullen, the floating fort, Then comes a puflfof smoke from her guns, And leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath, Prom each open port. We are not idle but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 602 páginas
...hcnvily rnns Silent anil bullcn, the flouting fort; Then comes n putt' of smoke from her gnus, Am! leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath, From each open port. We nre not idle, hut send her straight Dcliancc back in a full broadside 1 As hail rcbouncls from n roof... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 páginas
...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...send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! 1 The Cumberland : during the American Civil War, the Merrimar, an iron-clad Confederate gunboat,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 páginas
...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...heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. Ye are at peace in the troubled stream ; Ho ! brave land ! with hearts like these, Thy flag, that is... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 páginas
...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 fiery breath, From each open port. — LONGFELLOW, in poem on " Cumberland.'''' The Merrimac and Monitor. — During the second year of... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 376 páginas
...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 fiery breath, From her open port. Ho ! brave hearts, that went down in the seas ! Ye are at peace in the troubled stream... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 366 páginas
...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 fiery breath, From her open port. Ho ! brave hearts, that went down in the seas ! Ye are at peace in the troubled stream... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 344 páginas
...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...send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! i The Cumberland: during the American Civil War, the Merrimac, an iron-clad Confederate gunboat,... | |
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From the camp on the shore. Then far away to the south uprose A little feather of snow-white smoke, And we knew that the iron 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... 
