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" But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on! "
In War Time, and Other Poems - Page 61
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 152 pages
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John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #10)

John Greenleaf Whittier - 2004 - 232 pages
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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face...tread of marching feet: All day long that free flag tossed Over the heads of the rebel host. Ever its torn folds rose and fell On the loyal winds that...
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John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #10)

John Greenleaf Whittier - 2004 - 219 pages
...the silken scarf; "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face...came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at the woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said....
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The Quotable Dog Lover

Patricia M. Sherwood - 2004 - 300 pages
...get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too. NOEL LANGLEY (B. 1911) THE WIZARD OF Oz (SCREENPLAY) "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER BARBARA FRIETCHIE (1864) Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world...
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"Words for the Hour": A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry

Faith Barrett, Cristanne Miller - 2005 - 444 pages
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Following the Flag

Charles Carleton Coffin - 2005 - 344 pages
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Poets of the Civil War: (American Poets Project #15)

J. D. McClatchy - 2005 - 240 pages
...with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face...came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at the woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said....
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Flag: An American Biography

Marc Leepson - 2005 - 380 pages
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We the People and Funerals

Clifford E. Swartz - 2005 - 242 pages
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Recitations for Every Occasion

Carleton B. Case - 2005 - 288 pages
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