Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GERMAN AND FRENCH GOSPELS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: How do these eloquent lecturers of france Last Line: With atmospheres of philosophic breath! Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
How do these eloquent lecturers of France, And more uncouth expositors of lame Teutonic Saviours, on our creeds advance, And push, in crowds, for Messianic fame! Some in 'great swaths' of learning and untruth Utter themselves, and vent, in weary tomes, Their cruel day-dreams, without pause or ruth, Staunch to a worse apostacy than Rome's; Others, in tenderer tones, our hopes decry, And blight all careless hearts with moral death, And, with sweet voices, summon us to die; But, all alike, reduce our grand old faith, Our full-orb'd creeds, to merest nuclei, With atmospheres of philosophic breath! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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