Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; World War I - United States | ||||||||
OH, GALLANTLY they fared forth in khaki and in blue, America's crusading host of warriors bold and true; They battled for the rights of men beside our brave Allies, And now they're coming home to us with glory in their eyes. Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me! Our hearts are turning home again and there we long to be, In our beautiful big country beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. They bore our country's great word across the rolling sea, "America swears brotherhood with all the just and free." They wrote that word victorious on fields of mortal strife, And many a valiant lad was proud to seal it with his life. Oh, welcome home in Heaven's peace, dear spirits of the dead! And welcome home ye living sons America hath bred! The lords of war are beaten down, your glorious task is done; You fought to make the whole world free, and the victory is won. Now it's home again, and home again, our hearts are turning west, Of all the lands beneath the sun America is best. We're going home to our own folks, beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. | 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 LITTLE BOATIE'; A SLUMBER SONG FOR THE FISHERMAN'S CHILD by HENRY VAN DYKE |
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