Archibald MacLeish

Here you will find the Poem Liberty of poet Archibald MacLeish

Liberty

When liberty is headlong girl 
And runs her roads and wends her ways 
Liberty will shriek and whirl 
Her showery torch to see it blaze. 


When liberty is wedded wife 
And keeps the barn and counts the byre 
Liberty amends her life. 
She drowns her torch for fear of fire.