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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?”

24,061 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens

Poetry

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10265 words

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Poetry

The Shepheardes Calender: April

APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? hath some Wolfe thy tender Lambes ytorne? Or is thy Bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills

OCTOBER, 1818.

Salut au Monde.

1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join’d unended links, each hook’d to the next! Each answering all—each sharing the earth with all. What widens within you, Walt Whitman? What waves and soils exuding?

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Walt Whitman

2949 words

Fable

Belling the Cat

It is easy to propose impossible remedies

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Aesop

Short10 words

Fable

The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog

Cunning often outwits itself

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

A Tale (Epilogue to "The Two Poets of Croisic.")

What a pretty tale you told me Once upon a time --Said you found it somewhere (scold me!) Was it prose or was it rhyme, Greek or Latin? Greek, you said, While your shoulder propped my head.

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.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

520 words

Fable

The Man and the Satyr

No one should blow hot and cold with the same breath

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Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

The Cellar Door

By the old tavern door on the causey there lay A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray, And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop; And there stood...

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.

Manfred: A Dramatic Poem

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." [_Hamlet,_ Act i. Scene 5, Lines 166, 167. _The Scene of the Drama is amongst the Higher Alps--partly in the Castle of Manfred, and...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

13677 words

Poetry

The Witch of Atlas

TO MARY (ON HER OBJECTING TO THE FOLLOWING POEM, UPON THE SCORE OF ITS CONTAINING NO HUMAN INTEREST). How, my dear Mary,--are you critic-bitten (For vipers kill, though dead) by some review, That you condemn these verses I have written,...

A Sketch

"Honest--honest Iago! If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee." Shakespeare.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

743 words

Poetry

Oscar of Alva

How sweetly shines, through azure skies, The lamp of Heaven on Lora's shore; Where Alva's hoary turrets rise, And hear the din of arms no more!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

2045 words

Fable

The Hare With Many Friends

He that has many friends, has no friends

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Aesop

Short13 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...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1893 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...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2083 words

Poetry

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.