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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW ENGLAND; FOR A CELEBRATION IN KENTUCKY, by GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE Poet's Biography First Line: Clime of the brave! The high heart's home Last Line: On bennington and bunker hill. | |||
CLIME of the brave! the high heart's home, Laved by the wild and stormy sea! Thy children, in this far-off land, Devote to-day their hearts to thee; Our thoughts, despite of space and time, To-day are in our native clime, Where passed our sinless years, and where Our infant heads first bowed in prayer. Stern land! we love thy woods and rocks, Thy rushing streams, thy winter glooms, And Memory, like a pilgrim gray, Kneels at thy temples and thy tombs: The thoughts of these, where'er we dwell, Come o'er us like a holy spell, A star to light our path of tears, A rainbow on the sky of years. Above thy cold and rocky breast The tempest sweeps, the night-wind wails, But Virtue, Peace, and Love, like birds Are nestled mid thy hills and vales; And Glory, o'er each plain and glen, Walks with thy free and iron men, And lights her sacred beacon still On Bennington and Bunker Hill. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CLOSING YEAR by GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE VARIATIONS: 10 by CONRAD AIKEN TO A YOUNG ASS; ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING by THOMAS HARDY THE LIGHT OF STARS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW UPON THE CIRCUMCISION by JOHN MILTON WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE by MATTHEW PRIOR EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED SQUIRE by ROBERT BURNS THE LADY TO THE LOVER by ALICE CARY POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 16. THE DEALER AND CLERK by GEORGE CRABBE |
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