Find quotes from this poem, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Memory and the Past Quotes
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere (lines 1-2)
Warfare Quotes
He said to his friend, 'If the British marchBy land or sea from the town to-night (lines 6-7)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
One, if by land, and two, if by sea (line 10)
The Supernatural Quotes
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar (lines 20-21)
Visions of America Quotes
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year. (lines 3-5)