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Subject: SACRAMENTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIRDS' CONVENTION, by MILLER HAGEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the crumbs of a southern camp shaded with palm and pine
Last Line: In all the things that wantoness betrays.
Subject(s): Sacraments


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 23. CONFIRMATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young-ones gathered in from hill and dale
Last Line: That ere the sun goes down their childhood sets.
Subject(s): Sacraments


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 24. CONFIRMATION (CONTINUED), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a mother's eye intensely bent
Last Line: The summer-leaf had faded, passed to heaven.
Subject(s): Sacraments


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 25. SACRAMENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By chain yet stronger must the soul be tied
Last Line: Armour divine, and conquer in your cause!
Subject(s): Sacraments


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 28. VISITATION OF THE SICK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sabbath bells renew the inviting peal
Last Line: With a bad world, and foil the tempter's arts.
Subject(s): Sacraments


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 29. THE COMMINATION SERVICE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shun not the rite, neglected, yea abhorred
Last Line: Yield timely fruit of peace and love and joy.
Subject(s): Sacraments


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 31. FUNERAL SERVICE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the baptismal hour, thro' weal and woe
Last Line: "where is thy sting? -- o grave, where is thy victory?"
Subject(s): Funerals; Sacraments; Burials


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 32. RURAL CEREMONY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Closing the sacred book which long has fed
Last Line: And hooker's voice the spectacle approves!
Subject(s): Country Life; Sacraments


PAULO POST ORDINATIONEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since then thou pleased art, deer lord
Last Line: Febr. 27.
Subject(s): Clergy; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Sacraments; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Saul Of Tarsus


SACRAMENT, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One sunday morning %after a spring rain
Last Line: Occasionally a grain or two of sand %still crunched in our mouths
Subject(s): Churches; Mormons; Religion - Reformers; Sacraments


THE SACRAMENT OF FIRE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Kneel always when you light a fire!
Last Line: To god for his unfailing charity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Fire; Religion; Sacraments; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF FOOD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each meal should be a sacramental feast
Last Line: And pass, -- to live more worthily again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Religion; Sacraments; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is god's sacramental gift
Last Line: From all earth's sorrows with god's gift of peace!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Sacraments; Dead, The; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF LIGHT, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In that far off dim dawn
Last Line: And see thou use it right!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Light; Religion; Sacraments; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF LOVE, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is the sacrament of sacraments
Last Line: Thank god for love, -- his first, -- then yours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Love; Religion; Sacraments; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF PAIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pain is god's husbandman that turns the clods
Last Line: He made of death the opener of life's door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Sacraments; Suffering; Misery; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF SLEEP, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thank god for sleep!
Last Line: To feel the comfort of his soft embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Religion; Sacraments; Sleep; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF WATER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crystal clear from the throne of god
Last Line: For all fair, fresh, running water!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Religion; Sacraments; Water; Theology


THE SACRAMENT OF WORK, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon thy bended knees thank god for work
Last Line: We thank thee, lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Religion; Sacraments; Work; Workers; Theology