Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 13. AMERICA, PILGRIM FATHERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well worthy to be magnified are they Last Line: But in his glory who for sinners died. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; U.s. - Colonial Period | ||||||||
WELL worthy to be magnified are they Who, with sad hearts, of friends and country took A last farewell, their loved abodes forsook, And hallowed ground in which their fathers lay; Then to the new-found World explored their way, That so a Church, unforced, uncalled to brook Ritual restraints, within some sheltering nook Her Lord might worship and his word obey In freedom. Men they were who could not bend; Blest Pilgrims, surely, as they took for guide A will by sovereign Conscience sanctified; Blest while their Spirits from the woods ascend Along a Galaxy that knows no end, But in His glory who for Sinners died. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW WE BECAME A NATION [APRIL 15, 1774] by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD THE BLASTED HERB by MESECH WEARE JOHN ALDEN'S DREAM by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS ALAMANCE by SEYMOUR W. WHITING MOGG MEGONE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA: 3 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 14. AMERICA, PILGRIM FATHERS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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