From “My Country” (George Edward Woodberry Poems)
"O DESTINED Land, unto thy citadel, What founding fates even now doth peace compel, That through the world thy name ...
"O DESTINED Land, unto thy citadel, What founding fates even now doth peace compel, That through the world thy name ...
"I WILL rise, I will go from the places that are dark with passion and pain, ...
"O WILD heart, track the land's perfume, Beach-roses and moor-heather! All fragrances of herb and bloom Fail, out ...
"IINTO the west of the waters on the living ocean's foam, Into the west of the sunset where the young ...
"THE RAINBOW on the ocean A moment bright, The nightingale's devotion That dies on ...
"WHEN Love, our great Immortal, Put on mortality, And down from Eden's portal Brought ...
"It was only the clinging touch Of a child's hand in the street, But it made the whole day sweet; ...
"SWEET names, the rosary of my evening prayer, Told on my lips like kisses of good-night To friends who go ...
"MOTHER of nations, of them eldest we, Well is it found, and happy for the state, When that which makes ...
"WHEN love in the faint heart trembles, And the eyes with tears are wet, Oh, tell me what resembles ...
"WAS this his face, and these the finding eyes That plucked a new world from the rolling seas? Who, serving ...
"WHEN first I saw her, at the stroke The heart of nature in me spoke; The very landscape smiled more ...
"O, INEXPRESSIBLE as sweet, Love takes my voice away; I cannot tell thee when we meet ...
"O, STRUCK beneath the laurel, where the singing fountains are, I saw from heaven falling the ...
"TO tremble, when I touch her hands, With awe that no man understands; To feel soft ...
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