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In a brief essay that appeared ca. 1925, poet Katharine Lee Bates described her inspiration for writing "America the Beautiful," the poem that would evolve into one of the nation’s best-loved patriotic songs, during a trip to Pike’s Peak in 1893.
"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. [1] The two never met. [2] Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".
America the Beautiful is a patriotic American hymn that is regarded as the United States’ unofficial anthem. The song explores the grandeur of the American landscape as well as the nation’s ideals.
America the Beautiful Lyrics: O beautiful for spacious skies / For amber waves of grain / For purple mountain majesties / Above the fruited plain! / America! America! / God shed his grace on...
How ‘America the Beautiful’ was born To gather inspiration for her patriotic poem, scholar and social activist Katharine Lee Bates traveled the U.S. Her words tell the American story.
by Katherine Lee Bates; (1859-1929) Inspired by a trip to Pikes Peak in 1893, Katherine Lee Bates wrote the poem America the Beautiful. Her poem first appeared in print on July 4, 1895 in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal. Ms. Bates revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913.
Original poem (1893) O beautiful for halcyon skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the enameled plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, Till souls wax fair as earth and air And music-hearted sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the ...
Bates finished writing “America the Beautiful” before leaving Colorado Springs but didn’t think of publishing it until two years later. The poem was first printed in a weekly newspaper, The Congregationalist, on July 4, 1895. Bates’s patriotic words were soon set to music, most
In a brief essay that appeared ca. 1925, poet Katharine Lee Bates described her inspiration for writing “America the Beautiful,” the poem that would evolve into one of the nation’s best-‐loved patriotic songs, during a trip to Pike’s Peak in 1893.
America the Beautiful was written in 1893 and was published in The Congregationalist in 1895 with the title America. It is most famously sung to Samuel Augustus Ward's 1882 tune "Materna", with which it was first published in 1910.