The Death Of Olaf Tryggvision (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
IBLUE as blossom of the myrtleSmiled the steadfast eyes of OlafOn the host of ships that harriedHis enraged, gold-glittering Dragon,Snared ...
Katharine Lee Bates Poems on God (23 Poems)
When Lincoln Died (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
A five-year old in a Cape Cod village, twenty miles from the rail,Falmouth, Falmouth, loveliest Falmouth,Wearing her silvery, pearl-embroidered ocean ...
America The Beautiful (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on ...
Beyond (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
COLOSSAL orb of space,Sparkling with diamondOf countless star on star,All whirling with wild graceIn their enwoven danceIllimitably far,What lies beyondYour ...
The Thracian Stone (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
"The faieries gave him the propertie of the Thracian stone; for who toucheth it is exempted from griefe."The fairies to ...
To Canada (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
OUR neighbor of the undefended bound,Friend of the hundred years of peace, our kin,Fellow adventurer on the enchanted groundOf the ...
To My Country (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
O dear my Country, beautiful and dear,Love cloth not darken sight.God looketh through Love's eyes, whose vision clearBeholds more flaws ...
The Conqueror (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
Not the Prussian, the forsworn,By whose fury overborne,Martyred Belgium, you lieBruised with all injury.Through your peace red paths he clove,Burning, ...
Yellow Warblers (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
The first faint dawn was flushing up the skiesWhen, dreamland still bewildering mine eyes,I looked out to the oak that, ...
Jerusalem (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
AT last, at last the CrescentFalls back before the Cross.Great spirits, incandescentWith longing and with loss,Gleam from the clouds, crusadersWho ...
Soldiers To Pacifists (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
NOT ours to clamor shame on you,Nor fling a bitter blame on you,Nor brand a cruel name on you,That evil ...
The Submarine That Sank The “Lusitania” (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
SPINDRIFT white shall her victims standOn the ivory quay, untrodBy living feet, when she nears Ghoststrand,To point her out to ...
The Horses (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
"Thus far 80,000 horses have been shipped from the United States to the European belligerents."WHAT was our share in the ...
The Perfect Day (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
GOD made a day of blue and gold,Sweet as a violet,As merry as a marigold;It may be shining yetIn some ...
Eavesdroppin (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
THOUGH the winds but stir on their hoary thronesOf hemlock and pungent pine,All the whispering woodland tonesGossip of things divine, ...
Eavesdropping (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
THOUGH the winds but stir on their hoary thronesOf hemlock and pungent pine,All the whispering woodland tonesGossip of things divine, ...
New Year (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
WHITE year, white year,Muffled soft in snow,A diamond spray whose gems are goneBefore their grace we know,A crystal-coated spray whose ...
The Presence Chamber (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
(Switzerland)BEHOLD a temple builded not by hands.Columns of mist, all shimmering with sun,Stream heavenward from the deep-cut vales that runBetween ...
Our President (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
GOD help him! Ay, and let us help him, too,Help him with our one hundred million mindsMolded to loyalty, so ...
Russia (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
WHAT sudden voice peals to the Caucasus,To Finland and the bitter Caspian,To those Siberian prisons whither manShall seek as to ...
New Roads (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
FAR road for words that rush,Arrowing space,Swifter than meteors flushStar-road in race.Wireless! Tireless, leaping the wave!Roger Bacon laughs in his ...
The Sunset, Woven Of Soft Lights (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
THE sunset, woven of soft lightsAnd tender colors, lingers late,As looking back on all day's dreary plights,Compassionate;- The foolish day ...
The Creed Of The Wood (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
A WHIFF of forest scent,Balsam and fern,Won from dreary moodMy heart's return,From its discontent,Joy's run-away,To the sweet, wise woodAnd the ...