He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 2:4.

We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Publick Baptism of Infants, Reception of the Child.

   The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky forever but live with famine And pain a few days. 436

-Jeffers, (John) Robinson
  Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleamingö Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the clouds of the fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming! Keynes And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through thenight that our flag was still there; O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

-Key, Francis Scott
  'The Star-Spangled Banner', originally published as'The Defence of Fort M'Henry' in the Baltimore Patriot, 20 Sep; it commemorates the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, by the British,13^14 Sep.

The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed Ayouth, who bore,'mid snow and ice, A banner with a strange device, Excelsior!

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  'Excelsior'.

The sociologists of knowledge have been among those raising high the banner which reads: 'We don't know if what we say is true, but it is at least significant.' The sociologists and psychologists engaged in the study of publicopinionand mass communications aremost often found in the opposed camp of the empiricists† 'We don't know that what we say is particularly significant, but it is at least true.'

-Merton, Robert King
  Social Theory and Social Structure (rev. edn), pt.3, introduction.

No blazoned banner we unfoldö One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold, The golden heresy of truth.

-Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó
'On Behalf of Some Irishmen not Followers ofTradition'.

Love, that doth reign and live within my thought, And built his seat within my captive breast, Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought, Oft in my face he doth his banner rest.

-Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
  'Love, that doth reign'.