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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?”

24,117 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Poetry

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...

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Robert Browning

1673 words

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Poetry

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

THE PROLOGUE.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

7777 words

Poetry

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 Landlord's Tale; Paul Revere's Ride

Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

857 words

Poetry

The Death of Calmar and Orla. an Imitation of MacPherson's "Ossian"

Dear are the days of youth! Age dwells on their remembrance through the mist of time. In the twilight he recalls the sunny hours of morn. He lifts his spear with trembling hand. "Not thus feebly did I raise the...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1467 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Pardoner's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. OUR Hoste gan to swear as he were wood; "Harow!" quoth he, "by nailes and by blood, This was a cursed thief, a false justice. As shameful death as hearte can devise Come to these judges and their advoca's.

To Miss -- -- [Harriet Grove] From Miss -- -- [Elizabeth Shelley]

For your letter, dear -- , accept my best thanks, Rendered long and amusing by virtue of franks, Though concise they would please, yet the longer the better, The more news that's crammed in, more amusing the letter, All excuses...

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...

Hervé Riel

On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety two, Did the English fight the French,--woe to France! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter thro' the blue. Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came...

A Vision of the Sea

'Tis the terror of tempest.

Up at a Villa--Down in the City

_(As distinguished by an Italian person of quality.)_ Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city square; Ah, such a life, such a life, as...

Sister Rosa: A Ballad

The death-bell beats!-- The mountain repeats The echoing sound of the knell; And the dark Monk now Wraps the cowl round his brow, As he sits in his lonely cell.

Epistle to Mr Jervas, With Mr Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy's 'art of Painting.'

This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This from no venal or ungrateful Muse.

The Canterbury Tales. The Second Nun's Tale

The minister and norice unto vices, Which that men call in English idleness, The porter at the gate is of delices; T'eschew, and by her contrar' her oppress, -- That is to say, by lawful business, -- Well oughte we...

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Geoffrey Chaucer

3734 words

Fable

The Fox and the Crow

Do not trust flatterers

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Aesop

Short9 words

Poetry

The Daemon of the World

A FRAGMENT. Nec tantum prodere vati, Quantum scire licet. Venit aetas omnis in unam Congeriem, miserumque premunt tot saecula pectus. LUCAN, Phars. How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep!

88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer

YE Irish lords, ye knights an’ squires, Wha represent our brughs an’ shires, An’ doucely manage our affairs In parliament, To you a simple poet’s pray’rs Are humbly sent. my roupit Muse is hearse!

The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas.

THE PROLOGUE.

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

THE PROLOGUE.

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 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.

Ode to Naples

I stood within the City disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passing through the streets; and heard The Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls; The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

970 words

Fable

The Man and the Serpent

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten

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Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

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...

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Robert Browning

1816 words