The shades of night were falling fast, As through an
Alpine village passed Ayouth, who
bore,'mid snow and ice, A banner with a
strange device, Excelsior!
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United States, your banner wears Two emblems one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.
thomas campbellThey came with banner, spear, and shield, and it was proved in Bosworth field. Not long the Avenger was withstood, Earth help'd him with the cry of blood.
william wordsworthThe dusty catastrophe of Asia.Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Bible (Old Testament)We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
March we forth in the strength of GodWith the banner of Christ unfurled,That the light of the glorious gospel of truthMay shine throughout the World.
Night my banner, and my herald Fear.
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.
eugene v. debsI have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.
Henry Cabot LodgeA song for our banner! The watchword recall which gave the Republic her station: "United we stand, divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation!
george pope morrisIt is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
georgy zhukovGod save the pennon, ragged to the dawn, That signs to moon to stand, and sun to fly; And flutters when the weak is overborne To stem the tide of fate and certainty. That knows not reason , and that seeks no fame So! Undismayed beneath the serried clouds, Raise up the banner of forlorn defence A jest to the complacency of crowds Bright-haloed with the one diviner sense: To hold itself as nothing to itself; And in the quest of its imagined star To lose all thought of after-recompense!
john galsworthyOn a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
robert jordanNight my banner, and my herald Fear.
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
lord byronO say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
He did a forty-two minute cosmic rise in future shocks Star Spangled banner in the back of CBGB's He stopped every clock in New York state and every heart that heard him and time itself was beaten and confused and fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers He played an encore at the Bitter End a heartburst Little Wing even the waiters cried and then we fell outside and in the dusty dawn of Bleeker street a sweet rain fell and Jimi died.
mike scottO banner! Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them; You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money; May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
walt whitmanThe Star-Spangled banner celebrates the fact that, after a night of battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem "Poland is not yet lost"...