Battle Quote by Walter Scott

“It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Then the creatures of the high air answered to the battle, foretelling the destruction that would be done that day; and the sea chattered…

— Augusta Gregory

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and…

— Charles Godfrey Leland

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

— Sebastian Barry

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing,…

— Alfred de Musset

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan…

— Henry Van Dyke

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims,…

— George D. Prentice

“Before the Battle: Music of whispering trees Hushed by the broad-winged breeze Where shaken water gleams; And evening radiance falling With reedy bird-notes calling.…

— Siegfried Sassoon

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The…

— H. G. Wells

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The first sound was the bowstrings, the snap of five thousand hemp cords being tightened by stressed yew, and that sound was like the…

— Bernard Cornwell