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Elizabeth Antonova
SONNET TO AMERICA
America, my gratitude to you
and love I am unable to restrain
since one great day, when first I felt the dew
on friendly soil and joined your free domain.
New land, to you I...view moreSONNET TO AMERICA
America, my gratitude to you
and love I am unable to restrain
since one great day, when first I felt the dew
on friendly soil and joined your free domain.
New land, to you I owe my very best
that was not killed in me the final year
of trial, year that strengthened me through test
when God protected me from human fear.
I consecrate my mind to you, my pen
and faith that dawns in a triumphal day.
Just country, hope of freedom hungry men,
help all humanity on upward way,
until the boughs of brotherhood will bear
the fruit of understanding everywhere.
Elizabeth Antonova was a member of the Poetry Society of America The National League of American Pen Women, the Laramore-Rader Poetry Group and the Poetry Societies of Georgia and New Hampshire. She had over 130 poems published in English Language publications, and also wrote and translated poetry in French and Russian.
This poem is taken from the published book of her poems entitled You, Lonely One.view less