 Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying. The loudest still the tempest leaves behind...  Songs of Freedom - Page 43by Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 345 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...have seen. And vile Amhition, that huilt up hetween Man and his hopes an adamantine wall, And the hase to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle : The present century was growing hlind To th mps Life's tree, and dooms man's worst — his second fall. xcvin. Yet, Freedom ! yet thy hanner, torn,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...: Because the deadly days which we have seen, And vile Ambition, that built up between Man and his hopes an adamantine wall, And the base pageant last...eternal thrall Which nips Life's tree, and dooms man's wont— his second falL ICVTIl. Yet, Freedom I yet thy banner, turn, but flying. Streams like the thunder-storm... | |
 | Theology - 1907 - 532 pages
...present seemed to agree, Butler cited as an example to the contrary the image in the couplet — ' Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind ' ; and Wordsworth assented, saying that he considered this to be the finest image in Byron's poetry,... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 234 pages
...clime; Because the deadly days which we have seen, And vile Ambition, that built up between Man and his hopes an adamantine wall, And the base pageant last...grown the pretext for the eternal thrall Which nips lifes tree, and dooms man's worst — his second fall. This is the 'history hath but one page' argument... | |
 | Athol Fugard - Drama - 1990 - 100 pages
...Byron. THAMI: Lord Byron if you please. MR. M: Two-four. ISABEL: One of your favorites. THAMI: You bet. "Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind." Do you know the Christian names of Lord Byron? ISABEL: Oh dammit! . . . it's on the tip of my tongue.... | |
 | Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - History - 1991 - 316 pages
...sympathy for it, could never endorse without reservation. The furthest he goes in Childe Harold is Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. (IV.98) The impossible life of 'Freedom' cannot be suppressed here but it seems to exist in some collusion... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...who are not free. PEARL S. BUCK (1892-1973). US novelist. What America Means to Me. ch. 4 (1943). 7 not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft int againsl the wind. LORD BYRON (1788-1824], English poet. ChiMe HjroW's Pilgrimage, cto. 4, st, 98. 8... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...adamantine wall, And the base pageant hut upon the scene, Are grown the pretext for the eternal i grown thrall Which nips life's tree, and dooms man's worst— His second fall. flee, 233 ХСУШ. Yet, Freedom I yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 pages
...see realized in its time. Byron, too, had the 'firm will' and the 'deep sense;' he, too, made of 1 'Yet, Freedom! yet, thy banner torn, but flying Streams, like the thunder-storm, against the wind: Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind. The tree hath... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...Because the deadly days which we have seen, And vile Ambition, that built up between 870 Man and his hopes an adamantine wall, And the base pageant last...life's tree, and dooms man's worst - his second fall. XCVIII Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying 875 Streams like the thunder-storm against the... | |
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