“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)
“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)
“Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.”
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 1).
Marmion (1808)
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet
"Sappho (Rivers to the Sea)"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 30
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
"Memoirs of a Trotskyist", New York Times, January 23, 1979.
1970s
“Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.”
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel
Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) Eastern Orthodox saint
Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 115
“To the knights of faith nobody believes.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
”The Thin Thread,” p. 64
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys”