Blue Ensign Flag

Famous quotes containing the words blue, ensign and/or flag:

    She liked the blue drapes. They made a star
    At the angle. A boy in leather moved in.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
    Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

    Bravest of all in Frederick town,
    She took up the flag the men hauled down;
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)