Yale Book of American VerseThomas Raynesford Lounsbury Yale University Press, 1912 - 570 pages |
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... 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 ? Now ...
... 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 ? Now ...
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... brave ! O ! thus be it ever , when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation ! Blest with victory and peace , may the heav'n - rescued land , Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation . Then ...
... brave ! O ! thus be it ever , when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation ! Blest with victory and peace , may the heav'n - rescued land , Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation . Then ...
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... brave men , long and well ; They piled that ground with Moslem slain , They conquered - but Bozzaris fell , Bleeding at every vein . His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah , And the red field was won ...
... brave men , long and well ; They piled that ground with Moslem slain , They conquered - but Bozzaris fell , Bleeding at every vein . His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah , And the red field was won ...
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... Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time , Rest thee there is no prouder grave , Even in her own proud clime . She wore no funeral weeds for thee , Nor bade [ 12 ] FITZ - GREENE HALLECK 1790-1867.
... Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time , Rest thee there is no prouder grave , Even in her own proud clime . She wore no funeral weeds for thee , Nor bade [ 12 ] FITZ - GREENE HALLECK 1790-1867.
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... brave , Alike their birth and burial place , Their cradle and their grave ! Still sternly o'er the castle gate Their house's Lion stands in state , As in his proud departed hours ; And warriors frown in stone on high , And feudal ...
... brave , Alike their birth and burial place , Their cradle and their grave ! Still sternly o'er the castle gate Their house's Lion stands in state , As in his proud departed hours ; And warriors frown in stone on high , And feudal ...
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