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Closed us in its quivering gloom. So but now with Tanks a’clatter Have I waddled on the foe Belching death at twenty paces, By the star shell’s ghastly glow. A star shell, also called an illumination round, is a slow descending flare fired into the air by artillery to illuminate a battlefield. So as through a glass, and darkly
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!” — Daniel Webster “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well ...
The phrase was used by his opponents to suggest that Obama meant there is no individual success in the United States. [33] War on Women, a slogan used by the Democratic Party in attacks from 2010 onward. [34] "Binders full of women", a phrase used by Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential debates.
Quotes about strength and love “The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true ...
The 1948 version was in the form of one long prose paragraph, so earlier and later versions were presumably also in that form. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The reverend Frederick Kates distributed about 200 unattributed copies as devotional materials for his congregation at Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore during 1959 or 1960.
As a tree bends, so shall it grow; As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined; As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it; As you sow so shall you reap; Ask a silly question and you will get a silly answer; Ask my companion if I be a thief; Ask no questions and hear no lies; Attack is the best form of defense; At the end of my rope
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
According to one of Frost's biographers, "Fire and Ice" was inspired by a passage in Canto 32 of Dante's Inferno, in which the worst offenders of hell (the traitors) are frozen in the ninth and lowest circle: "a lake so bound with ice, / It did not look like water, but like a glass...right clear / I saw, where sinners are preserved in ice."