Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR COUNTRY, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG First Line: To all who hope for freedom's gleam Last Line: The gray world's golden dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Anise Subject(s): Religion; United States; Theology; America | ||||||||
To all who hope for Freedom's gleam Across the warring years, Who offer life to build a dream In laughter or in tears, To all who toil, unmarked, unknown, By city, field or sea, I give my heart, I reach my hand, A common hope, a common land Is made of you and me. For we have loved her summer dawns Beyond the misty hill, And we have shared her toil, her fruit Of farm and shop and mill. Our weaknesses have made her shame, Our strength has built her powers, And we have hoped and we have striven That to her children might be given A fairer world than ours. We dreamed to hold her safe, apart From strife; the dream was vain. Her heart is now earth's bleeding heart, She shares the whole earth's pain. To men oppressed in all the lands One flashing hope has gone, One vision wide as earth appears, We seek, across the warring years, The gray world's golden dawn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 12. AT THE DRAPER'S by THOMAS HARDY |
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