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"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".
The song explores the grandeur of the American landscape as well as the nation’s ideals. The lyrics were written by American poet, author, and educator Katharine Lee Bates, and the tune was created by American composer Samuel A. Ward.
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.
A hymn tune composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward in 1882 was first published with Bates’ poem in 1910 as "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 thee.
By Jill Lepore. November 3, 2020. • 20 min read. Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English at Wellesley College, had a chestnut-eyed collie named Hamlet and a green parrot named Polonius....
Katharine Lee Bates (born August 12, 1859, Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.—died March 28, 1929, Wellesley, Massachusetts) was a poet, author, and educator who wrote the text of the national hymn “ America the Beautiful.”
The song’s music and lyrics were conceived in the 19th century, by two people who never met: Katharine Lee Bates, whose words formed the poem Pikes Peak, and organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward, who composed the music at his church in New Jersey.