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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poet's Biography First Line: The footsteps of a hundred years Last Line: Immortalize their lives sublime! Subject(s): Ohio; Patriotism; Pioneers | |||
THE footsteps of a hundred years Have echoed, since o'er Braddock's Road Bold Putnam and the Pioneers Led History the way they strode. On wild Monongahela stream They launched the Mayflower of the West, A perfect State their civic dream, A new New World their pilgrim quest. When April robed the Buckeye trees Muskingum's bosky shore they trod; They pitched their tents, and to the breeze Flung freedom's star-flag, thanking God. As glides the Oyo's solemn flood, So fleeted their eventful years; Resurgent in their children's blood, They still live on -- the Pioneers. Their fame shrinks not to names and dates On votive stone, the prey of time; -- Behold where monumental States Immortalize their lives sublime! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM JAY SMITH THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE (1790-1880) by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY by PHILIP FRENEAU SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUTHERFORD MCDOWELL by EDGAR LEE MASTERS CROSSING THE PLAINS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER WESTWARD HO! by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER FACE TO FACE by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH THE SETTLER: AMERICA IN THE MAKING by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! by WALT WHITMAN THE SCHOOL GIRL by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE |
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