Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell
Grew darker at their frown.
The children of Israel have...slain thy prophets with the sword.
Some of the swords were crooked: orc-scimitars with blackened blades.
The drawing of the scimitars of the Southrons was like a glitter of stars.