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Black Church Tradition Illustrations

Liberation, exodus, and prophetic justice rooted in the African American church tradition.

Key question: “How does this text speak to the experiences of suffering, hope, and liberation within the Black community?”

25,923 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 06

All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light.

Universal

John Milton

5950 words

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Poetry

Sardanapalus

SCENE I.--_A Hall in the Palace_. _Salemenes_ (_solus_).

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

36867 words

Fable

Androcles

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

Summer Evening

The sinking sun is taking leave, And sweetly gilds the edge of Eve, While huddling clouds of purple dye Gloomy hang the western sky. Crows crowd croaking over head, Hastening to the woods to bed. Cooing sits the lonely dove, Calling home her absent love.

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored Its...

Poem of Joys.

1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of Death. O full of music! full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments! full of grain and trees. O for the voices of animals!

A Pindaric Ode

THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown His rage with razing your immortal town. Thou looking then about, Ere thou wert half got out, Wise child, didst...

Fragments of an Unfinished Drama

SCENE.--BEFORE THE CAVERN OF THE INDIAN ENCHANTRESS. THE ENCHANTRESS COMES FORTH. ENCHANTRESS: He came like a dream in the dawn of life, He fled like a shadow before its noon; He is gone, and my peace is turned to strife,...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1684 words

Fable

The Two Fellows and the Bear

Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch

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Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

War

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled Death, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world. on yon heath what countless victims lie, Hark!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

607 words

Fable

The Buffoon and the Countryman

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

A Very Mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama

The Moorish King rides up and down. Through Granada's royal town: From Elvira's gates to those Of Bivarambla on he goes. Woe is me, Alhama! Letters to the Monarch tell How Alhama's city fell: In the fire the scroll he...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

994 words

Fable

The Cat-Maiden

Nature will out

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Aesop

Short5 words

Fable

The Horse and the Ass

Better humble security than gilded danger

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Prologue.

WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot, The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every vein in such licour, Of which virtue engender'd is the flower; When Zephyrus eke with his swoote breath Inspired hath in...

A Hymn In Honour Of Beauty

Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too full of thee?

Celestial Love

Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for love,— Into vision which all form In one only form dissolves; In a region where the wheel, On which all...

Song of the Exposition.

1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free; To fill the gross, the torpid bulk with vital religious fire;...

The Vanities of Life

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon What are life's joys and gains? What pleasures crowd its ways, That man should take such pains To seek them all his days? Sift this untoward strife On which thy mind is bent: See...

How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights...

The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812

A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewed In the soul's coldest solitude, With that same scene when peaceful love Flings rapture's colour o'er the grove, When mountain, meadow, wood and stream With unalloying glory gleam, And to the spirit's ear and eye Are unison and harmony.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

787 words

Fable