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Subject: PREACHING & PREACHERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wus yo at church o' sunday morning, john?
Last Line: James. If onny comes, I'll tak it; john,—good bye!
Subject(s): Clergy; Lancashire, England; Language; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Words; Vocabulary; Oratory; Orators


A SERMON, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's room for most things: / tropic seas
Last Line: For you—but also room for me!
Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Sermons


A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's funny how our ancestors
Last Line: With some deliberation.
Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals


ACCOMPLISHMENT, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: One and twenty summers come and gone!
Last Line: Forgetful of accomplishment.
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Preaching & Preachers; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ADVICE TO THE REVERENDS ON THEIR PREACHING SLOWLY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brethren, this comes to let you know
Last Line: Will soon fill up their proper places.
Subject(s): Advice; Preaching & Preachers


AT CHURCH, by CORA BABBITT JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The preacher preached from a pulpit
Last Line: And I knew that god lived there.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


HE PREACHED UPON 'BREADTH' TILL IT ARGUED HIM NARROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To meet so enabled a man!
Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Truth


IN AN ALMSHOUSE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the dear summer evening! How the air
Last Line: You'll know that some day, maybe. Now begins....
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in blackness
Last Line: In blackness like a star
Subject(s): Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers


JOHN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody coming in darkness
Subject(s): Religion; Baptists; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Preaching & Preachers; Theology


THE MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men
Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons


TO AN ETHICAL PREACHER, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Four square against the genial tides of peace
Last Line: Could never be but for your priceless words!
Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Veterans Day; War


TO AN OLD SERMON, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old sermon, ere I relegate
Last Line: To seek, but not to force results.
Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Theology


TO THE PREACHERS ON ARMISTICE DAY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye who preach about god's love to man
Last Line: This armistice day?
Subject(s): God; Preaching & Preachers; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Theology


VERSES ON PREACHING EXTEMPORE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hint I gave some time ago
Last Line: But ex Æternitate too.
Subject(s): Advice; Poetry & Poets; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators