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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SERMONS Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1959, LOOMIS AVENUE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The intimate smell that belongs Last Line: Calling us home Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Speech A HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In the steps of christ I follow Last Line: And three crosses on the hill. Subject(s): Christianity; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Legends; Sermons; Speech; Oratory; Orators A MEMORIAL ABSTRACT OF A SERMON PREACHED ON PROVERBS, XX, 27, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human spirit, when it burns and shines Last Line: And shine for ever in jehovah's sight. Subject(s): Humanity; Life; Nature; Sermons A MODERN PREACHER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a preacher of the modern sort Last Line: And well reported in the daily press. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religious Press; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators A SERMON, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have heard many sermons, you and I Last Line: As when that sun went down! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Sermons A SERMON, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's room for most things: / tropic seas Last Line: For youbut also room for me! Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Sermons A SUMMER SERMON FOR MEN, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: I have fought a good fight,' the parson said, his weekly text declaring Last Line: Felt of his muscle on the sly and felt like god's anointed! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Play; Sermons; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements AN ANSWER TO SOME ENQUIRIES CONCERNING AUTHOR'S OPINION OF A SERMON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say to the sermon?' why, you all were by Last Line: The bird of learning, not the bird of love. Subject(s): Sermons ANNUNCIATION OF FRANCIS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I did not come to him on bended knee Last Line: Dribbling like wine from his side Subject(s): Prayer; Preaching And Preachers; Saints; Sermons ANTI-SUNDAY-SERMON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quickest way to maim an artist Last Line: I faithfully still believe! Subject(s): God; Sabbath; Sermons; Sunday APPLYING THE SERMON, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: O the pastor'd a sermon was splendid this mornin Last Line: "troth, then, it is quare!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Prayer; Sermons BROTHERS, AND A SERMON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a village built in a green rent Last Line: Might have been his. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ; Life; Quarrels; Sermons; Half-brothers; Arguments; Disagreements DOCTORS DIFFER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When willis of ephraim heard rochester preach Last Line: We preach very sadly, if he preaches well. Subject(s): Physicians; Prayer; Sermons; Doctors EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FROM AN AMERICAN SERMON, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched open to high heaven Last Line: Surveys and governs all. Subject(s): Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893); Sermons FROM AN ENGLISH SERMON, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More glorious shall the future be Last Line: To look upon him and rejoice. Subject(s): Sermons GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I vision god standing Last Line: And the other he clapped across the moon Subject(s): Sermons GOSPEL TOWN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Under its hump the town Last Line: Unfathomably still %the black mountain broods Subject(s): Sermons HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In shocked surprise Last Line: At peace, long since, with god. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mouths; Protestantism; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators INDEPENDENCE DAY 1960, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Around the dawn of time Last Line: Our own independence day Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence; Sermons JOHN PEARSON'S SERMON, by ZORA NEALE HURSTON Poem Source First Line: Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she long-legged Last Line: And said, 'peace, be still.' %and de bible says there was a calm Subject(s): Sermons LENGTH AND DEPTH, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you struck with the length of my sermon today?' Last Line: "yes, but not with its depth, sir, allow me to say." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Sermons LIGHT OF THE SACRED HARP, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small fire of hymnals in a trash can Last Line: And ashes. Subject(s): Bible; Revivals; Salvation; Sermons; Religious Revivals MODEL SERMON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It should be brief, if lengthy, it will steep Subject(s): Mnemonics; Sermons MODERN THOUGHTS OF A LAYMAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In these days of new thought and interpretation Last Line: For the goats, then will open the great jaws of hell. Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Thought; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors; Thinking MOSES AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: He held the %record album high Last Line: And even now %I still do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Bible; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Music And Musicians; Preaching And Preachers; Sermons; Ten Commandments ON A SERMON PREACH'ED ON ... 'YOU HAVE SOLD YOUR SELVES FOR NAUGHT', by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With grotius on new-testament yo've done Last Line: We scarcely know your pulpit from the bench. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Churches; Devil; Sermons; Cathedrals; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ON PREACHING, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The specious sermons of a learned man Last Line: Fires at our vices, and the shot takes place. Subject(s): Sermons ORMULUM, by ORM Poem Source First Line: An romanisshe kaserr-king Last Line: Onn eche lifess bokess writt %to brukenn heffness blisse Alternate Author Name(s): Ormin; Orm (circa 1170) Subject(s): Orthography; Sermons PLAIN SERMONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a man - and envied him beside Last Line: For never having seen myself before! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blindness; Envy; Sermons; Visually Handicapped PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The first time I felt his hands lifting me up like a gust of wind taking a Last Line: Nameless and unknown Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Portraits; Sermons RECKONING, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my love go laughing Last Line: Is, false or true, he was my man. Subject(s): Games; Love; Sermons; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ROADSIDE POEMS: AN OLD SERMON WITH A NEW TEXT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife contrived a fleecy thing Last Line: That holdeth fast thy life. Subject(s): Children; Education; Family Life; God; Sermons; Sewing; Childhood; Relatives SERMON OF THE FALLEN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From an east window Last Line: Even as a boy, I could feel the trembling in us all. Subject(s): Decay; Fear; Sermons; Rot; Decadence SERMON ON A PERFECT SPRING DAY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Open your minds and hearts Last Line: Gladiolus!' Subject(s): Preaching And Preachers; Sermons SIR MARTIN MAR-ALL, OR THE FEIGNED INNOCENCE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As country vicars, when the sermon's done Last Line: As he tells all things when the year is past. Subject(s): Fortune; Plays & Playwrights ; Sermons; Dramatists ST. ANTHONY'S SERMON TO THE FISHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: St. Anthony at church Last Line: But preferred the old way Subject(s): "anthony, Saint (250-355);churches;saints;sermons;" Cathedrals TECUMSEH AMONG THEM, by PHILIP RAISOR Poem Source First Line: Almost every sunday, sermons torched Last Line: I knew gods were at his feast Subject(s): Children; Churches; Sermons; Tecumseh (1768-1813) THE CHRISTIAN, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was free. But now in a net I am caught Last Line: I can not evade immortality. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sermons; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness THE DEAF-MUTE SERMON, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In silence which no weighted sound could plumb Last Line: While the irish bells of limerick loudly rang. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Deafness; Sermons THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE SERMON OF THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilful we are, in our infirmity Last Line: The smoldering sweetness of a dead red rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Roses; Sermons THE VILLAGE ORACLE, by JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Old dan'l hanks he says this town Last Line: "I'm right because I be!" Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Sermons; Villages; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE WORD SHE REMEMBERED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the sermon you heard, my / dear?' Last Line: To meet each cross with a happy song. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer Meetings; Sermons; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops 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 UNDER OBLIGATIONS (A NEGRO PARSON'S CHRISTMAS SERMON), by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice dat de weddah's rathah chilsome, mo' o' less, Last Line: Kase yo's undah obligashuns to ole santa claus. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Christmas; Santa Claus; Sermons; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint |
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