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Eastern Orthodox Illustrations

Reading Scripture as a path to Theosis — deification and union with God.

Key question: “How does this passage draw us into the mystery of God and guide us on the path of theosis?”

23,917 sermon illustrations through the Eastern Orthodox lens

Poetry

A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C.

That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the Glass where all appears) Had seen the period of his golden Years: And thenceforth onely did attend to trace, What...

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Andrew Marvell

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Fable

The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner

Words may be deeds

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Aesop

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Poetry

Starting from Paumanok.

1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands—lover of populous pavements; Dweller in Mannahatta, my city—or on southern savannas; Or a soldier camp’d, or carrying my knapsack and...

The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C.

Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining alwayes, disappears. In the Weak Circles of increasing Years; And his short Tumults of themselves Compose, While flowing Time above his Head does close.

Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island

"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself." ['Will sprawl, now that the heat of day is best, Flat on his belly in the pit's much mire, With elbows wide, fists clenched to prop his chin, And,...

Granta. a Medley

(Reply of the Pythian Oracle to Philip of Macedon.) Oh! could LE SAGE'S demon's gift Be realis'd at my desire, This night my trembling form he'd lift To place it on St. Mary's spire.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Al Aaraaf

nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where the day Springs from the gems of Circassy-- O!

Saint Edmond's Eve

did you observe the Black Canon pass, And did you observe his frown? He goeth to say the midnight mass, In holy St. Edmond's town. He goeth to sing the burial chaunt, And to lay the wandering sprite, Whose shadowy,...

Hellas: A Lyrical Drama

MANTIS EIM EZTHLON AGONUN.--OEDIP. PROLOGUE TO HELLAS.

Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant. a Tragedy in Two Acts

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL DORIC. 'Choose Reform or Civil War, When through thy streets, instead of hare with dogs, A CONSORT-QUEEN shall hunt a king with hogs, Riding on the IONIAN MINOTAUR.' SCENE.--THEBES. SCENE 1.1.--A MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE, BUILT OF THIGH-BONES...

The Loss Of The Eurydice

Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice—it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep unawakened, all un- warned, eleven fathoms fallen 2 Where she foundered! One stroke Felled and furled them, the hearts of oak!

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Fable

Hercules and the Waggoner

The gods help them that help themselves

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Aesop

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Fable

The Man and the Wood

Do not provide your enemy with the means for your own destruction

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Aesop

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Poetry

Tom May's Death

As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on the Elysian side, And with an Eye uncertain, gazing wide, Could not determine in what place he was, For whence...

Endymion: Book I

A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON.

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John Keats

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Fable

The Ass's Brains

Wit has always an answer ready

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Aesop

Short9 words

Poetry

The Last Ride Together

I said--Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love avails, Since all, my life seemed meant for, fails, Since this was written and needs must be-- My whole heart rises...

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Robert Browning

811 words

Fable

Avaricious and Envious

Vices are their own punishment

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Aesop

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Poetry

Sohrab and Rustum

And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream.

296. The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad

THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To bring them tidings hame. Nor only bring them tidings hame, But do their errands there, And aiblins gowd and honor...

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Robert Burns

587 words

Fable

The Cat-Maiden

Nature will out

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Aesop

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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

Poetry

Ode to Liberty

Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, torn but flying, Streams like a thunder-storm against the wind.--BYRON. A glorious people vibrated again The lightning of the nations: Liberty From heart to heart, from tower to tower, o'er Spain, Scattering contagious fire into the sky, Gleamed.

Scenes From the Faust of Goethe

SCENE 1.--PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN. ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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