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Katharine Lee Bates [1859-1929] American

Rank: 102
Poet (with poems), Songwriter

Katharine Lee Bates was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride.

Death, Easter, History, Love, Romantic

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Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.	Love, Romantic	101
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.		102
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.	Easter	103
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.	Death, History	104
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!		105
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.		106
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.		107
The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.		108
Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.		109

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