Lyric Poem · Power & Hubris

Concord Hymn

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1837

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,

Here once the embattled farmers stood

And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept;

Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;

And Time the ruined bridge has swept

Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,

We set to-day a votive stone;

That memory may their deed redeem,

When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare

To die, and leave their children free,

Bid Time and Nature gently spare

The shaft we raise to them and thee.

This poem is in the public domain.

“Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson — quilloak.com/poems/concord-hymn

Lyric Poem Rhyming Poems Power & Hubris Inspirational

Keep reading

Paul Revere's Ride

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1860

Listen my children and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;

130 lines · narrative

Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

70 lines · ode

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818

I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert...Near them, on the sand,

14 lines · sonnet

More poems about power →