 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1865 - 834 pages
...Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers — Bat ah, the pluck of the crew .' Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well — Steadily camo the powder, Steadily... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 352 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers : But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well, — Steadily came the powder, Steadily... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...shell Came mashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers; — But ah, the pluck of the crew! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well — Steadily came the powder, Steadily... | |
 | Loyall Farragut - Admirals - 1879 - 632 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers — But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well ; Steadily came the powder, Steadily came... | |
 | American poetry - 1882 - 578 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers; — But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, Toil had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well — Steadily... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 352 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers ; — But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well — And if tackle or truck found hurt,... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers ;— But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Never a nerve that failed, Never a cheek that paled, Not a tinge of gloom or pallor ; — There was... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - American poetry - 1889 - 318 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers ; — But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well — Steadily came the powder, Steadily... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 396 pages
...shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying aloft And falling in oaken showers; — But ah, the pluck of the crew ! Had you stood on that deck of ours, You had seen what men may do. Still, as the fray grew louder, Boldly they worked and well — Steadily came the powder, Steadily... | |
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... been aboard To have seen the fight we made! How they leaped, the tongues of flame, From the cannon's fiery lip! How the broadsides, deck and frame, Shook the great ship! And how the enemy's shell Came crashing, heavy and oft, Clouds of splinters flying... 
