To Heavy Hearts (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
HEAVY hearts, your jubileeDroops about the Christmas Tree.Sudden sighs cut off the laughter,For a haunting pain comes afterAll your gallant ...
Katharine Lee Bates Poems on Light (11 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Out Of Siberia (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
SHAKERAGS, cripples, gaunt and dazed,Prison-broken hosts on hosts,Torture-scarred and dungeon-crazed,Down the convict road they pour,More and more and myriads more,Terrible ...
White Moments (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
THE best of life, what is it but white moments?Those swift illuminations when we seeThe flying shadows on the fragrant ...
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 ...
In August (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
BESIDE the country road with truant graceWild carrot lifts its circles of white lace.From vines whose interwoven branches drapeThe old ...
The “Titanic” (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea,Did the waves from her proud bows foaming whisper ...
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 Crown Of Praise (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
A PRAISE beyond all other praise of oursThis nation holds in jealous trust for himWho may approve himself, even in ...
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 ...