American National Lyrics, and Sonnets, Издање 3O. Clapp, 1860 - 80 страница |
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Allston America's Walhalla American band battle beaming behold bold Britain British Buena Vista Bunker's Hill Central America Chorus.-Hurrah command conquest country's cried Cuba DANISH TOWER days of yore decks are slippery Destiny Divine Providence doth England fame is bowed fathers fight France freedom friends with cruel frigate gleam glorious land glory hath hearts heaven Henry Bell Honor to Fulton Kentucky the Brave Ledyard let our policy liv'st in thy mast-head memory Methinks monument mound Mount Vernon NATIONAL LYRICS native soil navy ne'er noble number of ships o'er obelisk patriot peace PRESCOTT HILLER pride proud quadrain redoubt rhymes sail Santa Anna SCOTLAND search of England's seen shore shot silent sinking skies SONNETS soon soul spirit spread stand steamboat stood tell thee there's Thou liv'st thy country toil tomb triumphs TRUE GLORY Twas United victory Washington WASHINGTON MONUMENT ween wounded York Herald
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Страница 75 - State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the South, and if, moved by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Страница 76 - ... populace, and written in easy and uniform verse, so that it may easily be sung by those who have little acquaintance with music. A Sonnet is a species of poetical composition, consisting of fourteen lines or verses of equal length. It properly consists of fourteen iambic verses, of eleven syllables, and is divided into two chief parts ; — the first consists of two divisions, each of four lines, called quatrains; the second of two divisions of three lines each, called terzines. The rhymes in...
Страница 64 - Some of the wounded were seen crawling with the last energies of life from the gory heap of the dying and the dead, among whom the officers, in their proportion, largely outnumbered the privates.
Страница 64 - ... movement was made to erect a commemorative monument on Breed's Hill. An association for the purpose was founded in 1824 ; and to give eclat to the transaction, and to excite enthusiasm in favor of the work, General La Fayette, then " the nation's guest," was invited to lay the corner-stone. Accordingly, on the 17th of June, 1825, the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, that revered patriot performed the interesting ceremony, and the Honorable Daniel Webster pronounced an oration on the occasion,...
Страница 76 - In the two terzine there are either three rhymes, each twice repeated, or two rhymes, thrice repeated, in all positions. The Italians, who use hardly any form for lyrical poetry but the sonnet and canzone, have invented varieties of it, such as the Anacreontic sonnets, with lines of eight syllables, and those with a coda. The sonnet generally contains one principal idea, pursued through the various antitheses of the...
Страница 64 - When the space," says an account, "between the assailants and the redoubt was narrowed to the appointed span, the word was spoken, and the deadly flashes burst forth.