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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CALVINISTS Matches Found: 9 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WORD TO THE 'ELECT', by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may rejoice to think yourselves secure Last Line: And live by him that died. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Calvinists DISGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pills? Talk to me of your pills? Well, that, I must say, is cool Last Line: Suppose I should think of it, surely? But anyhow -- there -- I won't. Subject(s): Calvinists; Churches; God; Sea; Suicide; Cathedrals; Ocean HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that [or, wha] in the heavens does dwell! Last Line: Amen, amen! Variant Title(s): Prayer Of Holy Willie, A Canting, Hypocritical Kirk Elder Subject(s): Calvinists; Hate; Hypocrisy; Prayer; Self-righteousness MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Last Line: To die and know it. This is the black widow, death Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders PENN CALVIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Search high and low, search up and down Last Line: And glad the world is fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Calvinists; Life SILENCE OF THE CALVINIST GREAT CHURCH, by ROBERT WELCH Poem Source First Line: A white cruciform filled with light Last Line: The brilliant run of trills towards the final close Subject(s): Calvinists THE LATEST DECALOGUE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have one god only; who Last Line: More than thyself to love thy neighbour. Subject(s): Bible; Calvinists; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Ten Commandments; Theology THE SAFEST CREED, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Name me the safest creed,' I cried Last Line: "shall find the future bright and fair." Subject(s): Calvinists; Faith; Belief; Creed |
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