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Home›Traditions›Charismatic

Charismatic Illustrations

The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.

Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”

23,591 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Squire's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. Godde's mercy!" said our Hoste tho, "Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro'.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Poetry

A Vision of the Sea

'Tis the terror of tempest.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1384 words

Poetry

144. A Winter Night

WHEN biting Boreas, fell and dour, Sharp shivers thro’ the leafless bow’r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv’d glow’r, Far south the lift, Dim-dark’ning thro’ the flaky show’r, Or whirling drift: Ae night the storm the steeples rocked, Poor Labour sweet...

The Glove

"Heigho!" yawned one day King Francis, "Distance all value enhances. When a man's busy, why, leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. Here we've got peace; and aghast...

First Anniversary

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close.

The Canterbury Tales. The Prioress's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "WELL said, by corpus Domini," quoth our Host; "Now longe may'st thou saile by the coast, Thou gentle Master, gentle Marinere. God give the monk a thousand last quad year! fellows, beware of such a jape.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

1718 words

Fable

The Ant and the Grasshopper

It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

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Aesop

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Poetry

Autumn.

THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON. TO MR WYCHERLEY. Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays, Hylas and Ægon sung their rural lays; This mourn'd a faithless, that an absent love. And Delia's name and Doris' fill'd the grove.

The Cloud

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story

Hamelin town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its walls on either side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk...

L'AMITIÉ, Est L'AMOUR Sans Ailes

Why should my anxious breast repine, Because my youth is fled? Days of delight may still be mine; Affection is not dead.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

514 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Man of Law's Tale.

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The Canterbury Tales. The Friar's Tale.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

2798 words

Fable

The Buffoon and the Countryman

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing

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Aesop

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Poetry

The Poet's Calendar

January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues and gates, The years that through my portals come and go.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

665 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Monk's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE WHEN ended was my tale of Melibee, And of Prudence and her benignity, Our Hoste said, "As I am faithful man, And by the precious corpus Madrian, I had lever than a barrel of ale, That goode lefe...

To a Skylark

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, That he not said it was a noble story, And worthy to be drawen to memory; And namely the gentles every one.

The Canterbury Tales. The Shipman's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE Our Host upon his stirrups stood anon, And saide; "Good men, hearken every one, This was a thrifty tale for the nones.

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?

The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

The Fallen Elm

Old elm, that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would drop When showers fell on thy many coloured shade And when dark tempests mimic thunder made-- While darkness came as...

Parisina

It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

3378 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Franklin's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

6334 words