Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates Poems

1. America the Beautiful

   by Katharine Lee Bates

   O beautiful for spacious skies,
   For amber waves of grain,
   
2. At Stonehenge

   by Katharine Lee Bates

   Grim stones whose gray lips keep your secret well,
   Our hands that touch you touch an ancient terror,
   
3. A Mountain Storm

   by Katharine Lee Bates

   Our blue sierras shone serene, sublime,
   When ghostly shapes came crowding up the air,
   
4. The Creed of the Wood

   by Katharine Lee Bates

   A whiff of forest scent,
   Balsam and fern,