Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AMERICA, by MORLEY ROBERTS First Line: Whatever penman wrote or orator Last Line: And hear your armies thundering prophecy. Subject(s): World War I - United States | ||||||||
WHATEVER penman wrote or orator Declaimed, I could not, for the soul of me, Deem that the West had lost of liberty All but the name, and feared the sounds of War: Of them and theirs I was not ignorant, nor Had failed to learn what impulse set them free When alien kings held England's realm in fee, And what, in conquering, they had battled for. Kinsmen! I see, in these dark pregnant hours Of shadow, when the heavens are overcast With smoke of ruined fanes and ancient towers, While throttled peoples yield and nations die, The morning star of vengeance shine at last, And hear your armies thundering prophecy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU SAY YOU SAID by MARIANNE MOORE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915] by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE NEW CRUSADE by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES by LAURENCE BINYON AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S by MARGARETTA BYRDE TO AMERICA IN WAR TIME by OSCAR W. FIRKINS RUSSIA - AMERICA by JOHN GALSWORTHY |
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