 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 620 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier boil From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. " Strike your flag ! " the rebel cries, In his arrogant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance hack in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp ! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack,... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp ! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...yield !" And the whole air pealed With the cheers of the men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp ! Down went the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp ! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack,... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack,... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1870 - 636 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, hut send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate....Morris replies ; " It is better to sink than to yield I " And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never I" our gallant Morris replies; " It is better to sink than to yield !" And the whole air pealed With... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp ! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack,... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 oldal
...With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...air pealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack,... | |
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As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. " Strike your flag ! " the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. ' ' Never ! " our gallant Morris replies ; " It is better to sink... 
