| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5787 |
| QUOTATION: | O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Katharine Lee Bates (18591929), U.S. author. America the Beautiful (l. 14). . .
Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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