 | Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1868 - 464 pages
...hundreds of battleflags ; j Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierced with missiles, I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody ; And at last but a few shreds of the flags left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) And the staffs all splintered and broken. I... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...hundreds of battleflags ; Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierced with missiles, I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...the staffs (and all in silence,) And the staffs all splintered and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...hundreds of battleflags ; Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierced with missiles, I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...the staffs (and all in silence,) And the staffs all splintered and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1050 pages
...you are folded ? Or, Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierced with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody. writer in the future of American democracy, than on account of his keen percept;o;i and vigorous denunciation... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1883 - 924 pages
...you are folded ? Or, Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierced with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody. Or again (an elegiac couplet) — Chants going forth from the centre, from Kansas, and thence equidistant... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...you are folded ? Or, Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierced with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody. Or again (an elegiac couplet) — Chants going forth from the centre, from Kansas, and thence equidistant... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 618 pages
...hundreds of battle-flags. Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles I saw them. And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...the staffs (and all in silence), And the staffs all splintered and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them. And the white skeletons of young men,... | |
 | Richard Hovey - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 236 pages
...through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles, carried hither and yon through the smoke, torn and bloody, and at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, and the staffs all splintered and broken. He sees the corpses of the young men, all the slain soldiers... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1897 - 484 pages
...hundreds of battle-flags, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...silence,) And the staffs all splinter'd and broken. I saw battle -corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 500 pages
...hundreds of Kit tie- flags, Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them, And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and...bloody, And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (.ind all in silence,) And the staffs all splinter'd and broken. I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them.... | |
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I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war... 
