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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HOLY NATION, by RICHARD REALF Poet's Biography First Line: Let liberty run onward with the years Last Line: The base infections our low greeds have bred. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty | |||
LET Liberty run onward with the years, And circle with the seasons; let her break The tyrant's harshness, the oppressor's spears; Bring ripened recompenses that shall make Supreme amends for sorrow's long arrears; Drop holy benison on hearts that ache; But clearer radiance into human eyes, And set the glad earth singing to the skies. Clean natures coin pure statutes. Let us cleanse The hearts that beat within us; let us now Clear to the roots our falseness and pretence, Tread down our rank ambitions, overthrow Our braggart moods of puffed self-consequence, Plough up our hideous thistles which do grow Faster than maize in May time, and strike dead The base infections our low greeds have bred. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER |
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