Joseph Rodman Drake quotes
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“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.”
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“When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?”
-- Joseph Rodman DrakeSource : 'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)
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“When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.”
-- Joseph Rodman Drake -
“Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.”
-- Joseph Rodman Drake -
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“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”
-- Joseph Rodman DrakeSource : Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77
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“O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door.”
-- Joseph Rodman DrakeSource : JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1836). “THE CULPRIT FAY”, p.89
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
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