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She stands an instant in the sun Athwart her harsh land's red and green Hands of a serf, and warrior eyes Of some flame-sceptred Irish queen. ? As if she does not care that life Has reft the jewels from her hair But grieves that menial needs and base Were those that left her palace bare.
Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson Hyde— 1938 The Godwits Fly, ch.23. This poem is an adaptation of 'The Farmer's Wife', first published in The Desolate Star (1929).
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my grace,on rosy-red pallor of lights on center stage.While people have cheered on the awful mess we've made,through storms of red roses we've exited the stage
st. vincent— "Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Your lips are redMy face is red from reading your red lips
st. vincent— "Your Lips Are Red"
I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
woody guthrie— As quoted in "Woody Guthrie" by Steve Earle in The Nation (21 July 2003)
I don't know what Mario will look like next; maybe he will wear metallic clothing with a red hat.
shigeru miyamoto— 1991, before the release of Super Mario 64.
If Gen. Omar el Bashir's government gives me permission to pursue Kony beyond the red line, it will only take me 30 minutes to finish him and his fighters.
yoweri museveni— 9 September 2005 [2]
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.
mahmud tarzi— An Afghan Intellect, by Yama Atta & Hashmat Haidari
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river’s reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.
alexander blok— "Autumn Love" (1907); translation from C. M. Bowra (ed.) A Book of Russian Verse (London: Macmillan, 1943) p. 99.
Like red meat thrown before the Atkins crowd in the Republican Party, the initiative would teach problem solving, negotiating, and listening skills, which might then trickle up to the Bush Administration.
kate clinton— Give Me an L
But he sent her Good-by, And said to be good, And wear her red hood, And look for skunk tracks In the snow with an ax And do everything!
robert frost— "The Last Word of a Blue Bird
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the “Song of the Shirt.”
thomas hood— St. 1. (The Song of the Shirt (1843))
Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
james russell lowell— No. 10. (Series II (1866))
I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.
Claude McKay— Flame-Heart, l. 9-10
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
walter scott— Canto I, introduction, st. 1.
Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin, (Some bee had stung it newly).
Sir John Suckling— Suckling — A Ballad Upon a Wedding. St. 1 1 .
With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red; Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lippes that bled.
William wabner— William Wabner — Albion's England. Bk. VIII. Ch.XLI. St. 53.
The red rose on triumphant brier.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, scene 1, line 96.
When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
— Matthew, XVI. 2. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
For one cannot serve the national spirit merely by getting a lump in the throat whenever one catches sight of the Union Jack, or by seeing red when a newspaper reports that some foreign power has acted aggressively towards England. These reactions bear the same relation to true love of country that a chance encounter between a man and a woman who meet in the street bears to a happy marriage.
rebecca west— Rebecca West, "The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal" (1935), reprinted
Nose, nose, jolly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; And they gave me this jolly red nose.
Francis Beaumont— Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act I, scene 4.
Whence is yonder flower so strangely bright? Would the sunset's last reflected shine Flame so red from that dead flush of light? Dark with passion is its lifted line, Hot, alive, amid the falling night.
dora read goodale— Dora Read Goodale, Cardinal Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 89.
A little marsh-plant, yellow green, And prick'd at lip with tender red, Tread close, and either way you tread, Some faint black water jets between Lest you should bruise the curious head.
algernon charles swinburne— Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Sundew.
Plantagenet: Let him, that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Somerset: Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
william shakespeare— Scene IV
[The red Flag] is the funeral march of a fried eel.
George Bernard Shaw— Quoted byWinston Churchill in Great Contemporaries (1937).
Rick walked away right at the height. People look at other artists like Simply red and say they were big, but he out-sold them two to one.
rick astley— Pete Waterman
The red Army must keep its powder dry and be in constant mobilization and preparedness.
semyon timoshenko— Quoted in "Soviet Politics at Home and Abroad" - Page 414 - by Frederick Lewis Schuman - History - 1946
One sanction, which Chuikov was never ashamed to use, was the threat of a bullet in the back. The discipline he maintained was savage even by the standards of Zhukov's red Army.
vasily chuikov— Catherine Merridale
The red Queen shook her head, 'You may call it "nonsense" if you like,' she said, 'but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!'
Lewis Carroll— Lewis Carroll Through the looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), Chapter II.
The modern Little red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan— Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride, 1951
