 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...winds were hurrying o'er the flood ' And waves were white below, No more shall feel the conqueror's tread, Or know the conquered knee; The harpies of...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
...deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, No more shall feel the conqueror's tread Or know the conquered knee ; The harpies of...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
...winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the conqueror's tread Or know the conquered knee ; The harpies of...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... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Boston (Mass.) - 1838 - 242 pages
...tread, Or know the conquered knee ; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...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... | |
 | 1838 - 434 pages
...The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea! •. Oh, better that her shattered hull Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...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... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...: Her thunders shook the 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
...tread, Or know the conquer'd knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck Oh ! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...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
...conquer'd knee; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! O ! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...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
...conquer'd knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! O, better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...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
...conquer'd knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! O ! better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...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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Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee ; — The harpies... 
