 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...deep And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale! COLUMBIA'S GREAT GLORY. HAI/LOW'D the birth-day of liberty's nation, Sacred the flame on her altar... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...deep And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale ! THE SEA-BIRD'S SONG. fcY JO ' BRAINARD. ON the deep is the mariner's danger, On the deep is the mariner's... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...deep And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale !" Here H a little song — very touching and very grand— by the most highly-gifted and deeply lamented... | |
 | 1838 - 434 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave: Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every thread-bare sail, And give her to the God of storms The lightning and the gale! The Last Walk. BY MRS. LH SIGOUHSEV. THR vernal sky was soft and pure, The cottage garden fair j And... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Boston (Mass.) - 1838 - 242 pages
...And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every thread-bare sail, • And give her to the god of storms, — The lightning and the gale ! as the battle-axe of Richard, fell like a thunder-bolt on John Bull. The tone of the London Quarterly... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...mighty deep And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy Hag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale ! LITERARY NOTICES. Л Tale of the Hu/ruenoti, or Memoir» of a French Refugtt Family: Translated and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale ! THE TREADMILL SONG. THE stars are rolling in the sky, The earth rolls on below, And we can feel the... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale ! 74 A SAILOR'S LIFE. How bless'd the life a sailor leads, From clime to clime still ranging, For as... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, — The lightning and the gale ! STANZAS. STRANGE ! that one lightly-whisper'd tone Is far, far sweeter unto me, Than all the sounds... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 528 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale ! 74 A SAILOR'S LIFE. How bless'd the life a sailor leads, From clime to clime still ranging, For as... | |
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Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave! Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave: Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning, and the gale! 
