(Encyclopedia) banner system, Manchu conscription system. Companies of Manchu warriors were grouped (1601) into brigades, each with a distinctive banner. The banner system integrated former tribal…
(Encyclopedia) Star-Spangled Banner, The, American national anthem, beginning, “O say can you see by the dawn's early light.” The words were written by Francis Scott Key, a young Washington attorney…
—Francis Scott Key, 1814O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,…
means a piece of cloth. (Anglor-Saxon, fana; Latin, pannus; Welsh, baner; Italian, bandiera; French, bannière.) “An emperor's banner should be sixe foote longe, and the same in breath; a…
by JohnKeats"Places of nestling green for ...CalidoreSpecimen of an Induction to a Poem Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;
For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.
Not like the…
A look at some controversial, and botched, renditions of the American national anthem
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Song of the Banner at Daybreak Poet:
O A new song, a free song,
Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
By the wind's voice and that of the drum,
By the…
Unpublished Poems of John KeatsContentsOde on indolenceTo AutumnOdeSonnetsCharacter of Charles BrownFor ThereâÂÂs BishopâÂÂs TeignLa Belle Dame sans MerciLines Rhymed in a Letter from…
Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine,To Ailsa RockTo - Time’s sea hath been five years at its slow ebb,
Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand,
Since I was tangled in thy beauty’s…
by JohnKeatsTo My Brother GeorgeWritten on the day that Mr. Le...To * * * * * * Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell,
Thine ear, and…
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