Oh for a tongue to curse the slave

Whose treason, like a deadly blight,

Comes o'er the councils of the brave,

And blasts them in their hour of might!

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): The Fire-Worshippers.

How well Horatius kept the bridge

In the brave days of old.

Thomas B Macaulay (1800-1859): Lays of Ancient Rome. Horatius, lxx.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Alexander's Feast. Line 15.

Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!

From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,

And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 316.

And the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Henry Clay (1777-1852): The Star-Spangled Banner.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest

By all their country's wishes bless'd!

William Collins (1720-1756): Ode written in the year 1746.

When all the blandishments of life are gone,

The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

George Sewell (—— -1726): The Suicide.

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,

Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;

Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,

Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): The Present Crisis.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,

And greatly falling with a falling state.

While Cato gives his little senate laws,

What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 5.

Toll for the brave!—

The brave that are no more!

All sunk beneath the wave,

Fast by their native shore!

William Cowper (1731-1800): On the Loss of the Royal George.

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,

Over the unreturning brave.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 27.

Toll for the brave!—

The brave that are no more!

All sunk beneath the wave,

Fast by their native shore!

William Cowper (1731-1800): On the Loss of the Royal George.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave,

Who rush to glory or the grave!

Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,

And charge with all thy chivalry!

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): Hohenlinden.