Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERITAGE, by AMY CROCKER LEIGHTON First Line: We are a cordon-rope of love Last Line: To mount the universal stair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Love; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The | ||||||||
We are a cordon-rope of love Who march this winter field, below; A blackened sky now stands above To blot the earth that death may blow Her trumpet over freedom's land And terrorize with each command. We are a cordon-rope of love Whose very lives are bred of steel By men who ventured all to shove Beyond the tread of tyrant's heel And sing with open-throated song Of common justice, common wrong. We are a cordon-rope of love And woven well by godly hand, We lift our purpose far above The spires of greed that our command May filter guidance, unaware, To mount the universal stair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND JACOB'S LADDER by AMY CROCKER LEIGHTON TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775] by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |
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