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She, the bright Progeny of Heaven, descends, And every Grace her sovereign Step attends; For now kind Heaven, indulgent to our Prayer, In smiling Peace resolves the Din of War. Fix'd in Columbia her illustrious Line, And bids in thee her future Councils shine.
LIBERTY AND PEACE. LO! Freedom comes. Th' prescient Muse foretold, All Eyes th' accomplish'd Prophecy behold: Her Port describ'd, "She moves divinely fair, "Olive and Laurel bind her golden Hair." She, the bright Progeny of Heaven, descends, And every Grace her sovereign Step attends; For now kind Heaven, indulgent to our Prayer,
We start this pick of the best poems about freedom with an unusual choice: a poem that is about the value of being restricted or confined. Wordsworth considers some examples of people who actually prefer to have a ‘scanty plot of ground’, much as the sonnet-writer makes do with just 14 lines.
Liberty and Peace, a Poem. by Phillis Wheatley. Lo! Freedom comes. Th' prescient Muse foretold, All Eyes th' accomplish'd Prophecy behold: Her Port describ'd, "She moves divinely fair, Olive and Laurel bind her golden Hair." She, the bright Progeny of Heaven, descends, And every Grace her sovereign Step attends;
Liberty and peace, a poem. / By Phillis Peters. Author. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Publication. Boston: :: Printed by Warden and Russell, at their office in Marlborough-Street., M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784] Rights/Permissions.
“Liberty and Peace,” by Phillis Wheatley, is a sixty-six-line meditation celebrating the genesis of the United States of America as a country separate from Great Britain: “Lo! Freedom comes.”
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