Joseph Rodman Drake Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

3 Famous Quotes by Joseph Rodman Drake
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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.”
Flags Quotes
Source: The Croakers--The American Flag (st. 1)
“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.”
Flags Quotes
Source: The Croakers--The American Flag (st. 5)
“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.”
Rivers Quotes
Source: Bronx