Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRANCISCA GLORIOSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL First Line: A crown on her head and triumphant, francisca shall / mount to her seat Last Line: "then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, ""francisca the blest!" Subject(s): Disasters; Lightning; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Lightning Rods | ||||||||
A crown on her head and triumphant, Francisca shall mount to her seat; Her sceptre, a shaft of the lightning, all enemies under her feet; The ocean of oceans her conquest, the nations their tribute shall bring To her ashes abloom like an Eden, the home of perpetual Spring. And the Orient's stores of the ages and the northland's frozen gold, Still red with the fires of Aurora, where it burnt on her altars of old, Shall build her a house of such splendor that masters of progress shall own Her a queen among cities,her prowess, that spirit sublimed which is known To the souls that, like metal concentrate, have passed through the crucible's test. Then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, "Francisca the Blest!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOLT FROM THE BLUE by GREGORY ORR THE YOUNG MYSTIC by LOUIS UNTERMEYER POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN by ELEANOR WILNER THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER by MARVIN BELL EPITAPH by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES LIGHTNING by WILLIAM ROSE BENET SHEET LIGHTNING by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 87 CASA GRANDE by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL |
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