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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

The Rape of the Lock:

AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. 'Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis.' MART. TO MRS ARABELLA FERMOR. What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing--This verse to Caryll, Muse!

Universal

Alexander Pope

5378 words

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Fable

The Wind and the Sun

Kindness effects more than severity

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

The Lament of Tasso

Long years!--It tries the thrilling frame to bear And eagle-spirit of a Child of Song-- Long years of outrage--calumny--and wrong; Imputed madness, prisoned solitude, And the Mind's canker in its savage mood, When the impatient thirst of light and air...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1667 words

Poetry

Endymion: Book III

There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures; or, O torturing fact!

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John Keats

7005 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Crane

Gratitude and greed go not together

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude

'The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket!' Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

4648 words

Fable

The Tortoise and the Birds

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions

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Aesop

Short12 words

Fable

The Cock and the Pearl

Precious things are for those that can prize them

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Aesop

Short14 words

Poetry

185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water

MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne’er assails in vain; Embolden’d thus, I beg you’ll hear Your humble slave complain, How saucy Phoebus’ scorching beams, In flaming summer-pride, Dry-withering, waste my foamy streams, And drink my crystal tide.

Proud Music of The Storm.

Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of the mountains! Personified dim shapes! you hidden orchestras! You serenades of phantoms, with instruments alert, Blending, with Nature’s rhythmus, all the tongues of nations;...

The Cry Of The Children

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1084 words

Poetry

To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics

Rail on, Rail on, ye heartless crew! My strains were never meant for you; Remorseless Rancour still reveal, And damn the verse you cannot feel.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

520 words

Poetry

A 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...

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Edmund Spenser

2020 words

Fable

The Lion's Share

You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil

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Aesop

Short18 words

Poetry

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets

1 Lo dм che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci!

Rural Morning

Soon as the twilight through the distant mist In silver hemmings skirts the purple east, Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles to view And dries the morning's chilly robes of dew, Young Hodge the horse-boy, with a soodly gait,...

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH

1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky 1.3 Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in every clime, 1.4 And so has vow'd, whilst there is world or time.

The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts)

Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has greatly purpos'd; who would else In his dishonour'd works himself endure Dishonour, and be wrong'd without redress. Haste then, and...

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William Cowper

602 words

Fable

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

Mother and Poet

One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the west by the sea. both my boys ! When you sit at the feast And are wanting a great song for Italy free,...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

843 words

Poetry

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Grow old along with me!

Peter Bell the Third. by Miching Mallecho, Esq

Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch--some sipping tea; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all--damned! "Peter Bell", by W. WORDSWORTH. OPHELIA.--What means this, my lord?

Satire IV.

THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED. Well, if it be my time to quit the stage, Adieu to all the follies of the age! I die in charity with fool and knave, Secure of peace at least beyond the grave.

Remembrances

Summer's pleasures they are gone like to visions every one, And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on. I tried to call them back, but unbidden they are gone Far away from heart and eye and forever far away.

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John Clare

781 words