1. Felicia Dorothea Hemans
  2. england
The Homes of England

The Stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O’er all the pleasant land;
The deer across their greensward bound
Through shade and sunny gleam,
And the swan glides past them with the sound
Of...

Poet: Felicia Dorothea Hemans
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England

The Breaking waves dashed high
  On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
  Their giant branches tossed;

And the heavy night hung dark
  The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
  On...

Poet: Felicia Dorothea Hemans