Katharine Lee Bates Professions : Songwriter Born : August 12, 1859 Died : March 28, 1929 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Katharine Lee Bates O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain. Katharine Lee Bates 4th-of-july sky beautiful Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. Katharine Lee Bates lovely rose sweet Adversity is the true school of the mind. Katharine Lee Bates adversity mind school It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls. Katharine Lee Bates hours easter soul America! America! Katharine Lee Bates 4th-of-july sea america 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! Katharine Lee Bates dream beautiful years O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine! Katharine Lee Bates business beautiful country The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops. Katharine Lee Bates commerce shops cities America! America! God shed His grace on thee. Katharine Lee Bates 4th-of-july grace america Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. Katharine Lee Bates heroes special death history The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. Katharine Lee Bates tourist hill begging habit Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! Katharine Lee Bates ignorant motherhood children people A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them. Katharine Lee Bates best great reading literature Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table. Katharine Lee Bates find poor time fall Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire. Katharine Lee Bates must him london made Similar Authors Ahmet Ertegun songwriter Brenton Brown songwriter Butch Walker songwriter Bryan-Michael Cox songwriter Aurora Aksnes songwriter Audrey Assad songwriter All Authors
