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Subject: ANGLICAN CHURCH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AECCLESIAE ET REIPUB, by WILLIAM STRACHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild as they are, accept them, so were we
Last Line: No better work can state - or church-man do
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Travel; Virginia (state)


AN ENGLISH CHURCH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells awake the sabbath's choral prime
Last Line: Is bodied forth in gentle rites and pure.
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Churches; Cathedrals


BROADSIDE POSTED IN COUNTRY INN IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1655, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hold as faith
Last Line: Is catholick and wise
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics


DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these last things reduced
Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Anglican Church; Jews; English History


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 39. EMINENT REFORMERS (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks that I could trip o'er heaviest soil
Last Line: From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Hooker, Richard (1553-1600); Jewel, John (1522-1571)


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 40. EMINENT REFORMERS (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy and heavenly spirits as they are
Last Line: And prophesy to ears that will not hear.
Subject(s): Anglican Church


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 41. DISTRACTIONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defy
Last Line: For every wave against her peace unites.
Subject(s): Anglican Church


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 19. THE LITURGY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear
Last Line: Shall dissipate the seas and mountains hoary.
Subject(s): Anglican Church


HOLY SONNET: 18, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me dear christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear
Last Line: When she is embraced and open to most men.
Variant Title(s): "show Me Clear Christ, Thy Spouse, So Bright And Clear"";
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Protestantism; Roman Catholics; Catholicism


QUEEN ELIZABETH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet our elizabeth stood out alone
Last Line: Far to the north their scurrying vessels went!
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Spanish Armada


RELIGIO LAICI; OR, A LAYMAN'S FAITH, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars
Last Line: Tom sternhold's, or tom sha--ll's rhymes will serve.
Variant Title(s): Finite Reason;reason And Revelation;reason And The Soul;religio Laici, Or, A Layman's Faith: A Poem
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Faith; Protestantism; Religion; Translating & Interpreting; Belief; Creed; Theology


SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray
Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws!
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict


THE APOLOGY OF THE BISHOPS IN ANSWER TO BONNER'S GHOST, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right revd. Brother and so forth
Last Line: We'll find her soon a bonner.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THE BRITISH CHURCH, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I joy, deare mother, when I view
Last Line: And none but thee.
Subject(s): Anglican Church


THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 1, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A milk-white hind, immortal and unchang'd
Last Line: The lady of the spotted muff began.
Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 1
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict


THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 2, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dame, said the panther, times are mended well
Last Line: Then couch'd her self securely by her side.
Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 2
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict


THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 3, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Much malice mingled with a little wit
Last Line: With glorious visions of her future state.
Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 3
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Converts, Catholic; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Stillingfleet, Edward (1635-1699); Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict