Barbara Younger
Autor de Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
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Conocimiento común
- Ocupaciones
- librarian
Miembros
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- Obras
- 8
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 567
- Popularidad
- #44,118
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 18
O beautiful for halcyon skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Two years later she submitted the poem to a magazine for its Fourth of July issue. It became wildly popular. And soon many composers used its lyrics to create a patriotic song. Bates revised her lyrics twice to make them, “a bit more musical,” with “more simple and direct” language. It became her most famous poem.… (más)