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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. "
The National Register - Page 352
1819
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An Illustration of the Principles of Elocution ...

William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 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...back Before the broadside's reeling rack. The dying wand'rer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours fly, In...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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...wildly back Before the broad-side's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors...
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Studies in Poetry and Prose: Consisting of Selections Principally from ...

A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...victor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back, Before the broad-side's reeling rack; The dying wanderer of the...
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Rural Repository, Volumes 10-11

1834 - 430 pages
...victor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail. And frightened waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack. ^ The dying wanderer of the...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2

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...ru.sh wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rock, are of the highest order of Ideality. The deficiencies * The expression "woven nir," much in-fined...
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The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 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...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 splendours...
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The Universal Songster and Museum of Mirth: A Collection of ..., Volume 2

Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...glances glow; And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea...
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Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 262 pages
...victor-glances glow, And 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...
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The New-York Book of Poetry

Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 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...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 splendours...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 6

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...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Khali look at once to heaven and the«, And smile to see thy splendours...
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