Katharine Lee Bates

(1863–1929) Poet United States

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Katharine Lee Bates was a poet from the United States, best known for Romantic legends of Spain.

Quick Facts About Katharine Lee Bates

Born: October 16, 1863
Died: September 28, 1929
Nationality: United States
Profession: Poet
Notable works: Romantic legends of Spain
Known for: America the Beautiful, Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride

About Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

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Begging

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Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with…

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Alter

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It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

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Chains

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America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

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4th of july

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O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain....

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4th of july

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O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country…

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America

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0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed…

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America

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Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

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Flowers

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Adversity is the true school of the mind.

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Adversity

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Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people…

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Abuse