StoryTitle("caps", "The Landing of the Pilgrims") ?>
Landing of the Pilgrims," by Felicia Hemans (1749-1835), is a
poem that children want when they study the early history of America.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The breaking waves dashed high", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On a stern and rock-bound coast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the woods against a stormy sky", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their giant branches tossed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the heavy night hung dark", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The hills and waters o'er,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When a band of exiles moored their bark", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the wild New England shore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not as the conqueror comes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They, the true-hearted, came;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not with the roll of the stirring drums,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the trumpet that sings of fame.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not as the flying come,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In silence and in fear;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They shook the depths of the desert gloom", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With their hymns of lofty cheer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Amid the storm they sang,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the stars heard, and the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the anthem of the free!", "") ?>
PagePoem(230, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ocean eagle soared", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From his nest by the white wave's foam;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rocking pines of the forest roared,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This was their welcome home!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There were men with hoary hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amid that pilgrim band;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why had they come to wither there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Away from their childhood's land?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was woman's fearless eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lit by her deep love's truth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was manhood's brow serenely high,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the fiery heart of youth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What sought they thus afar?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bright jewels of the mine?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They sought a faith's pure shrine!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay! call it holy ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The soil where first they trod:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They have left unstained what there they found,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Freedom to worship God.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Felicia Hemans.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>