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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?”

24,107 sermon illustrations through the Anglican lens

Poetry

Spontaneous Me.

SPONTANEOUS me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder, The hill-side whiten’d with blossoms of the mountain ash, The same, late in autumn—the hues...

Universal

Walt Whitman

596 words

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Poetry

Hiawatha's Wooing

"As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows; Useless each without the other!" Thus the youthful Hiawatha Said within himself and...

Universal

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1311 words

Poetry

Orpheus

A: Not far from hence.

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

827 words

Fable

The Fox and the Stork

One bad turn deserves another

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

Song of the Broad-Axe.

1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother’s bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip only one! Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced from a little seed sown! Resting the grass amid and...

Troilus and Criseyde: Book IV

But al to litel, weylaway the whyle, Lasteth swich Ioye, y-thonked be Fortune!

The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn. by Horace Hornem, Esq

"Qualis in Eurotæ ripis, aut per juga Cynthi, Exercet DIANA choros." VIRGIL, 'Æn'. "Such on Eurotas's banks, or Cynthus's height, Diana seems: and so she charms the sight, When in the dance the graceful goddess leads The quire of nymphs,...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1714 words

Poetry

The Devil's Drive

THE Devil returned to Hell by two, And he stayed at home till five; When he dined on some homicides done in _ragoût_, And a rebel or so in an _Irish_ stew, And sausages made of a self-slain Jew, And...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1893 words

Fable

The Sick Lion

Only cowards insult dying majesty

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

In Reference to Her Children

I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest.

Letter to Maria Gisborne

The spider spreads her webs, whether she be In poet's tower, cellar, or barn, or tree; The silk-worm in the dark green mulberry leaves His winding sheet and cradle ever weaves; So I, a thing whom moralists call worm, Sit...

Falsehood and Vice

A DIALOGUE.

Inspiration

Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God leaves alone. If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of...

Universal

Henry David Thoreau

469 words

Fable

The Two Crabs

Example is the best precept

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

The Building of the Ship

"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!" The merchant's word Delighted the Master heard; For his heart was in his work, and the...

Universal

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2083 words

Poetry

Paradise Regained: The Second Book

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late expressly called Jesus Messiah, Son of God, declared, And on that high authority had believed, And with him talked, and...

Song of the Open Road.

1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

Thyrsis, a Monody

How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village street its haunted mansion lacks, And from the sign is gone Sibylla's name, And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks--...

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

'Tis done--but yesterday a King! And armed with Kings to strive-- And now thou art a nameless thing: So abject--yet alive! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strewed our earth with hostile bones, And can he thus survive?

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

927 words

Poetry

The Song of Hiawatha: X

Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other!" Thus the youthful Hiawatha Said within...

Universal

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1313 words

Poetry

The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa

Dearest, best and brightest, Come away, To the woods and to the fields! Dearer than this fairest day Which, like thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough Year just awake In its cradle in the brake.

Winter.

THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE. TO THE MEMORY OF MRS TEMPEST. Thyrsis, the music of that murmuring spring Is not so mournful as the strains you sing; Nor rivers winding through the vales below, So sweetly warble, or so smoothly flow.

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Alexander Pope

625 words

Fable

The Fox and the Cat

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon

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Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

The Son Of The Evening Star

Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by the magic arrow, Staining all the waves with crimson, With the crimson of its life-blood, Filling all the air with...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1808 words