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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMERICA RESURGENT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poet's Biography First Line: She is risen from the dead! Last Line: And a helmet full of stars! Subject(s): World War I - United States | |||
SHE is risen from the dead! Loose the tongue and lift the head; Let the sons of light rejoice. She has heard the challenge clear; She has answered, "I am here"; She has made the stainless choice. Bound with iron and with gold — But her limbs they could not hold When the word of words was spoken; Freedom calls — The prison walls Tumble, and the bolts are broken! Hail her! She is ours again — Hope and heart of harassed men And the tryants' doom and terror. Send abroad the old alarms; Call to arms, to arms, to arms, Hands of doubt and feet of error! Cheer her! She is free at last, With her back upon the past, With her foot upon the bars. Hosts of freedom sorely prest, Lo, a light is in the West, And a helmet full of Stars! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU SAY YOU SAID by MARIANNE MOORE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915] by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE NEW CRUSADE by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES by LAURENCE BINYON AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S by MARGARETTA BYRDE TO AMERICA IN WAR TIME by OSCAR W. FIRKINS RUSSIA - AMERICA by JOHN GALSWORTHY A FAMILIAR SPIRIT by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD |
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