Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 36. TROUBLES REFORMATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aid, glorious martyres, from your fields of light Last Line: And victory sickens, ignorant where to rest! Subject(s): Reformation | ||||||||
AID, glorious Martyrs, from your fields of light, Our mortal ken! Inspire a perfect trust (While we look round) that Heaven's decrees are just: Which few can hold committed to a fight That shows, ev'n on its better side, the might Of proud Self-will, Rapacity, and Lust, 'Mid clouds enveloped of polemic dust, Which showers of blood seem rather to incite Than to allay. Anathemas are hurled From both sides; veteran thunders (the brute test Of truth) are met by fulminations new -- Tartarean flags are caught at, and unfurled -- Friends strike at friends -- the flying shall pursue -- And Victory sickens, ignorant where to rest! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE TO THE CHURCH by TIMOTHY DWIGHT STILL, STILL WITH THEE by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE JOSEPH'S REFORM (A TALE OF THE HOT DOG TAVERN) by BERTON BRALEY PRAISE-GOD BAREBONES by ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON CORTISSOZ SONG FOR THE MORNING OR EVENING by ISAAC WATTS PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE by RUBEM A. ALVES IT'S ALL VERY WELL WANTING LIBERATION by PATRICIA BAXTER PRAYER FOR THE LAND by DANIEL BETETA PRAYER FOR GOD'S PRESENCE by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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