 Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men...  The Chief American Poets - Pàgina 313per Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 713 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | E. S. S. Rouse - 1864 - 346 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down : In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam and gash ; Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. Pho leaned far out... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pàgines
.... Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff" she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire !''— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...and right He glanced : the old flag met his sight. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pàgines
...fourscore years and ten ; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that...dust-brown ranks stood fast. '« Fire !" — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1866 - 352 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. .She leaned... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - 1866 - 314 pàgines
...ten Bravest of all in Frederick-town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast. "Fire!" — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 122 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick,... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan - 1867 - 864 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast, " Fire !"— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash : It rent the banner with seam and gosh. Quick,... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 pàgines
...; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal...dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane, and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick,... | |
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