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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

24,080 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Poetry

The Temple of Fame.

In that soft season, when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers; When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray; As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest, And...

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Alexander Pope

3453 words

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Poetry

Troilus and Criseyde: Book I

The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his aventures fellen Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye, My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

7575 words

Poetry

The Flight of the Duchess

You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his yoke, too; So here's the tale from beginning to end, My friend!

The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts)

'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.

Beppo: A Venetian Story

_Rosalind_. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits: disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your Nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

6164 words

Poetry

Charles the First

SCENE 1: THE MASQUE OF THE INNS OF COURT. A PURSUIVANT: Place, for the Marshal of the Masque! FIRST CITIZEN: What thinkest thou of this quaint masque which turns, Like morning from the shadow of the night, The night to...

The Zucca

Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring, And infant Winter laughed upon the land All cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiring More in this world than any understand, Wept o'er the beauty, which, like sea retiring, Had left the earth bare...

To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us

To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage.

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Ben Jonson

570 words

Fable

The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts

It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again

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Aesop

Short19 words

Poetry

Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills

OCTOBER, 1818.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1687 words

Fable

The Tree and the Reed

Obscurity often brings safety

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Aesop

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Poetry

Holy-Cross Day

Fee, faw, fum! bubble and squeak! Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week. Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough, Stinking and savoury, smug and gruff, Take the church-road, for the bell's due chime Gives us the summons--'tis sermon-time! Boh, here's Barnabas!

The Blues: A Literary Eclogue

"Nimium ne crede colori."--Virgil, ECLOGUE THE FIRST. _London.--Before the Door of a Lecture Room_. _Enter_ TRACY, _meeting_ INKEL. You're too late. Is it over? Nor will be this hour. But the benches are crammed, like a garden in flower.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

5055 words

Poetry

Windsor-Forest.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE LORD LANSDOWNE. 'Non injussa cano: te nostrae, Vare, myricae, Te nemus omne canet; nee Phoebo gratior ulla est, Quam sibi quae Vari praescripsit pagina nomen.' VIRG. Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats, At once...

The Flitting

I've left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place; The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face. I miss the hazel's happy green, The blue bell's quiet hanging blooms, Where...

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 Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1800 words

Fable

The Fox and the Stork

One bad turn deserves another

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Aesop

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Fable

The Sick Lion

Only cowards insult dying majesty

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Aesop

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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

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

CANTO THE FIRST.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

39250 words

Poetry

There was a Child went Forth.

THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

In Reference to Her Children

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

Orpheus

A: Not far from hence.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

827 words