Water (Philip Larkin Poem)
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail ...
Poems about devout (31 Poems)
Divina Commedia (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The Burial (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1904(C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902) When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
A COUNTRY LIFE:TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK (Robert Herrick Poem)
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
temporising with the eternal (Rg Gregory Poem)
i don't know what you're up to yet but for me you wouldn't exist (not on this page anyway - ...
from imperfect Eden (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
By the Vision, Called (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He was called, by the vision to send forth his slaves, a devout member men from his company, to go ...
Sending Them to His Door (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Cornelius, faithful, obedient sending them, to his door not knowing the reason sending them because he was called devout, loyal ...
Giving Thanks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We gather each year to remember the year gone by the harvest season, the days of thanksgiving the first Thanksgiving, ...
Reconciling (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Reconciling concepts of God the unity of the God of Abraham, the God of Jesus, the way, the truth, the ...
Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service (T. S. Eliot Poems)
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
Sonnet XXII: Love, Banish’d Heav’n (Michael Drayton Poems)
Love, banish'd Heav'n, on Earth was held in scorn, Wand'ring abroad in need and beggary, And wanting friends, though of ...
Stars and the Soul (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One (John Donne Poem)
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not ...
Tales in the beginning (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Tales in the beginning didn't begin in the telling, they would have started no doubt, but not without a concrete ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
To William Wordsworth (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
In Praise of Meter (Michael Burch Poem)
The earth is full of rhythms so precise the octave of the crystal can produce a trillion oscillations, yet not ...
68. The Holy Fair (Robert Burns Poems)
UPON 1 a simmer Sunday morn When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff ...
130. Nature’s Law: A Poem (Robert Burns Poems)
LET other heroes boast their scars, The marks of sturt and strife: And other poets sing of wars, The plagues ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
At A Solemn Musick (John Milton Poems)
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy, Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers, Wed your divine sounds, and mixt ...
Psalm 88 (John Milton Poems)
Lord God that dost me save and keep, All day to thee I cry; And all night long, before thee ...
The Cornfields (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The cornfields rise above mankind, Lifting white torches to the blue, Each season not ashamed to be Magnificently decked for ...
The Hearth Eternal (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
There dwelt a widow learned and devout, Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill. Three sons she had, who went ...