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Home›Traditions›Anglican

Anglican Illustrations

Scripture, Tradition, and Reason — the "three-legged stool" — seeking the via media.

Key question: “How do we faithfully interpret this text using the wisdom of Scripture, Church tradition, and God-given Reason?”

24,072 sermon illustrations through the Anglican lens

Poetry

Prometheus Unbound. a Lyrical Drama in Four Acts

AUDISNE HAEC AMPHIARAE, SUB TERRAM ABDITE? PROMETHEUS: Monarch of Gods and DAEmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes!

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

16648 words

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Poetry

The Two Foscari

SCENE I.--_A Hall in the Ducal Palace_. _Enter_ LOREDANO _and_ BARBARIGO, _meeting_. _Lor._ WHERE is the prisoner? _Bar._ Reposing from The Question. _Lor._ The hour's past--fixed yesterday For the resumption of his trial.--Let us Rejoin our colleagues in the council, and Urge his recall.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

26810 words

Poetry

Troilus and Criseyde: Book II

Out of these blake wawes for to sayle, O wind, O wind, the weder ginneth clere; For in this see the boot hath swich travayle, Of my conning, that unnethe I it stere: This see clepe I the tempestous matere...

Universal

Geoffrey Chaucer

12512 words

Fable

The Bundle of Sticks

Union gives strength

Universalunitystrength

Aesop

Short7 words

Poetry

The Curse of Minerva

Pallas te hoc Vulnere Pallas Immolat et poenam scelerato ex Sanguine Sumit.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

2143 words

Poetry

The Zucca

Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring, And infant Winter laughed upon the land All cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiring More in this world than any understand, Wept o'er the beauty, which, like sea retiring, Had left the earth bare...

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

573 words

Fable

The Serpent and the File

It is useless attacking the insensible

Universalfutilitywisdom

Aesop

Short11 words

Fable

The Two Pots

The strong and the weak cannot keep company

Universalinequalitypartnership

Aesop

Short11 words

Fable

The Ass and the Lapdog

Clumsy jesting is no joke

Universalself-awarenessappropriateness

Aesop

Short10 words

Fable

The Dog in the Manger

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves

Universalenvyselfishness

Aesop

Short14 words

Fable

The Dog and the Wolf

Better starve free than be a fat slave

Universalfreedomslavery

Aesop

Short13 words

Poetry

Hymn to Mercury

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER. Sing, Muse, the son of Maia and of Jove, The Herald-child, king of Arcadia And all its pastoral hills, whom in sweet love Having been interwoven, modest May Bore Heaven's dread Supreme.

The Irish Avatar

Ere the daughter of Brunswick is cold in her grave, And her ashes still float to their home o'er the tide, Lo! George the triumphant speeds over the wave, To the long-cherished Isle which he loved like his--bride.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1154 words

Poetry

The Bour-Tree Den

CLINKUM-CLANK in the rain they ride, Down by the braes and the grey sea-side; Clinkum-clank by stane and cairn, Weary fa' their horse-shoe-airn!

Universal

Robert Louis Stevenson

617 words

Poetry

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire

Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink, First of this thing, and that thing, and t'other thing think; Then my thoughts come so pell-mell all into my mind, That the sense or the subject I never...

An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven wrought, Whose wondrous beauty, breathing sweet delights Do kindle love in high-conceited sprights; I fain to tell the things that...

Satire II.

'Quid vetat et nosmet Lucilî scripta legentes Quaerere, num illius, num rerum dura negârit Versiculos natura magis factos, et euntes Mollius?' HOR. THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED. SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. Yes; thank my stars!

310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale

WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin to tak the gate, While we sit bousing at the nappy, An’ getting fou and unco happy, We think na...

Universal

Robert Burns

1296 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Lamb

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Epistle From Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori

DEAR Doctor, I have read your play, Which is a good one in its way,-- Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels, And drenches handkerchiefs like towels With tears, that, in a flux of grief, Afford hysterical relief To shattered...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

495 words

Poetry

To Edward Noel Long, Esq

"Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico."--HORACE.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

648 words

Poetry

Ghasta or, the Avenging Demon!!!

the owlet flaps her wing, In the pathless dell beneath, Hark! night ravens loudly sing, Tidings of despair and death.-- Horror covers all the sky, Clouds of darkness blot the moon, Prepare!

The Adieu. Written Under the Impression That the Author Would Soon Die

Adieu, thou Hill! where early joy Spread roses o'er my brow; Where Science seeks each loitering boy With knowledge to endow.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

657 words

Poetry

Cain: A Mystery

SCENE I.--_The Land without Paradise.--Time, Sunrise_. ADAM, EVE, CAIN, ABEL, ADAH, ZILLAH, _offering a Sacrifice_. God, the Eternal! All-wise!-- Who out of darkness on the deep didst make Light on the waters with a word--All Hail! with returning light--All Hail!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

21445 words