 In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight.  Favorite Poems - Page 55by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1877 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...hasting day Has run But to the even-song ! And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Margaret snatched the silken scarf 5 She leaned far out... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...up the flag the men haul'd down ; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouch' d hat, left and right, He glanced; the old flag met his sight: " Halt! " — the dust-brown... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - 1971 - 222 pages
...up the flag the men hauled down ; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall...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... | |
 | Thomas John Chew Williams, Folger McKinsey - Frederick County (Md.) - 1967 - 1870 pages
...staff she set. To show that one heart was loya! yet. I'p the strret came the rebel tread, /?fo4«rnil Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left...right He glanced ; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!" — tlie dvst-brou-n rants stood fait; "Fire!"— out blated the rift blast. It Aicered Hit icindom... | |
 | Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 pages
...up the flag the men hauled down, In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall...and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from... | |
 | Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchill - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 956 pages
...threescore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag that the men hauled down. Halt! The dust-brown ranks stood fast. Fire! Out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window with frame and sash, It rent the banner with many a gash. Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1993 - 704 pages
...up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall...stood fast. 'Fire!'— out blazed the rifle-blast. 397 REHNQUIST, CJ, dissenting It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and... | |
 | Richard Marius - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 592 pages
...up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall...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. She leaned far out... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall...and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast. "Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window,... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Leonard - United States - 1994 - 340 pages
...from the upper window of her home. In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet, Up the street came the rebel tread Stonewall...and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast, "Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window,... | |
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