O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.... — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea! — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.... — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
