From the Weyr and from the Bowl,
Bronze and brown and blue and green,
Rise the dragonmen of Pern,
Aloft, on wing, seen, then unseen.
Dragonflight, page 5

Honor those the dragons heed,
In thought and favor, word and deed.
Worlds are lost or worlds are saved
From the dangers dragon-braved.

Dragonman, avoid excess;
Greed will bring the Weyr distress;
To the ancient Laws adhere,
Prospers thus the Dragonweyr!
Dragonflight, page 22

The Hold is barred,
The Hall is bare,
���� And men vanish.
The soil is barren,
The rock is bald.
���� All hope banish.
Dragonflight, page 28

By the Golden Egg of Faranth
By the Weyrwoman, wise and true,
Breed a flight of bronze and brown wings,
Breed a flight of green and blue.
Breed riders, strong and daring,
Dragon-loving, born as hatched
Flight of hundreds soaring skyward,
Man and dragon fully matched.
Dragonflight, page 68����� Read the full-length version of this Ballad: Golden Egg of Faranth I-III

Seas boil and mountains move,
Sands heat, dragons prove
Red Star passes.
Stones pile and fires burn,
Green withers, arm Pern.
Guard all passes.
Star Stone watch, scan sky.
Ready the Weyrs, all riders fly;
Red Star passes.
Dragonflight, page 85

Dragonman, dragonman,
Between thee and thine,
Share me that glimpse of love
Greater than mine.
Dragonflight, page 124

The Finger points
At the Eye blood-red.
Alert the Weyrs
To sear the Thread.
Dragonflight, page 145

Rise high in glory,
Bronze and gold.
Dive entwined,
Enhance the Hold.

Count three months and more,
And five heated weeks,
A day of glory and
In a month, who seeks?

A strand of silver
In the sky...
With heat, all quickens
And all times fly.
Dragonflight, page 175

Weyrman, watch; Weyrman, learn
Something new in every Turn.
Oldest may be coldest, too.
Sense the right; find the true!
Deagonflight, page 186

Wheel and turn
Or bleed and burn.
Fly between, Blue and green.
Soar, dive down,
Bronze and brown
Dragonmen must fly
When Threads are in the sky.
Dragonflight, page 197

Black, blacker, blackest,
And cold beyond frozen things.
Where is between when there is naught
To Life but fragile dragon wings?
Dragonflight, page 257����� Read the full-length version of this Ballad: Lessa's Ride

Cold as death, death-bearing,
Stay and die, unguided.
Brave and braving, linger.
This way was twice decided.
Dragonflight, page 259

Who wills,
Can.
Who tries,
Does.
Who loves,
Lives.
Dragonflight, page 262

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