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Subject: SERMONS
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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 you—but 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