 | 1819 - 480 pages
...cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lofty messenger of death. Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail. And frighted 'waves rush wildly back, Before the broad-side's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...beneath i'lach gallant arm, that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! dn ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave...gale, , Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail> And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack. The dying wand'rer of the sea... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...spirit, and might almost be supposed to be from a different hand. The images contained in the lines, When Death careering on the gale Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves ru.sh wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rock, are of the highest order of... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 pages
...Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. IV. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pages
...cowering foes shall fall beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave, Thy rtars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death, careering...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, — The dying wanderer of the... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1836 - 262 pages
...cowering foes shall sink beneath, Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death, cnreering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1837 - 278 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy flam »hall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering on...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the bravef When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea... | |
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Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. 
