The land lies desolate and stripped; Across its waste has thinly strayed A tattered host of eucalypt. From whose gaunt uniform is made A ragged penury of shade.

-Adams, Arthur Henry
  'Written in  Australia', in The Collected Verses of  Arthur H Adams.

The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist and hum of that low land, Into the frosty starlight.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.875^7.

Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M'Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to ravish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.

-Aytoun,William Edmonstoune
  'The Massacre of the Macpherson', stanza1.

   America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

-Bailey, PhilipJames
  Festus, sc.10.

If Conservative Backbench MPs wanttoget on inpolitics they will have to find a foothold in the narrow strip of land that lies between sycophancy and rebellion.

-Baker (of Dorking), Kenneth Baker, Baron
  Queen's Speech in the House of Commons.

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

-Benson, A(rthur) C(hristopher)
  'Land of Hope and Glory'.

And Cain went out from the presence of the L, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 4:16.

Now the L had said unto Abram,Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis12:1^3.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give untothee, and tothy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God† Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis17:7^10.

   And the famine was sore in the land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 43:1.

   I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 45:18.

  And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 3:8.

Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 42:9.

Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the L thy God hath cast them out from beforethee, saying,For my righteousness the L hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the L doth drive them out from before thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDDeuteronomy 9:4.

  But if ye shall at all turn from following me† Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and thishouse, which Ihavehallowed formy name, will Icast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:6^7.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dryand thirsty land, where no water is.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 63:1.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes fromtears, and my feet from falling.I will walk beforethe L in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I wasgreatlyafflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms116:8^11.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we 98 wept, whenwe remembered Zion.We hanged ourharps uponthewillows inthemidst thereof.For therethey that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one ofthesongs of Zion.Howshall wesing theL'ssong in a strange land?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms137:1^4.

The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

-Blake,William
  Poetical Sketches,'To Spring'.