Reformed/Presbyterian Illustrations

Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)

"Tie stille, barn min! Imorgen kommer Fin, Fa'er din, Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med!" Zealand Rhyme.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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The Prophecy of Dante

"'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before." Campbell, . DEDICATION.

5623 words

An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven wrought, Whose wondrous beauty, breathing sweet delights Do kindle love in high-conceited sprights; I fain to tell the things that...

Edmund Spenser

2020 words

Fable

The Jay and the Peacock

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds

Universalidentitypretense

Aesop

Short15 words

Fable

The Fisher

When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you

Universalpowersubmission

Aesop

Short16 words

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...

John Clare

1423 words

Fable

The Fox Without a Tail

Distrust interested advice

Universaladviceself-interest

Aesop

Short8 words

An Epistle: Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician

Karshish, the picker up of learning's crumbs, The not incurious in God's handiwork (This man's flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a bubble, kneaded like a paste, To coop up and keep down on earth a space That puff...

The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci

CANTO THE FIRST. In the beginning was the Word next God; God was the Word, the Word no less was He: This was in the beginning, to my mode Of thinking, and without Him nought could be: Therefore, just Lord!

5240 words

The Revolt of Islam. a Poem in Twelve Cantos

Osais de Broton ethnos aglaiais aptomestha perainei pros eschaton ploon nausi d oute pezos ion an eurois es Uperboreon agona thaumatan odon. DEDICATION.

Sleepers, The.

1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers, Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.

Walt Whitman

2484 words

Fable

Hercules and the Waggoner

The gods help them that help themselves

Universalself-relianceaction

Aesop

Short11 words

Passage to India.

1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World, the east, the Suez canal, The New by its mighty...

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.

To Think of Time.

1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded these earth-beetles? Have you fear’d the future would be nothing to you?

Walt Whitman

1605 words

Fable

The Four Oxen and the Lion

United we stand, divided we fall

Universalunitystrength

Aesop

Short12 words

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...

Alexander Pope

2931 words

Fable

The Serpent and the File

It is useless attacking the insensible

Universalfutilitywisdom

Aesop

Short11 words

Elegy on Newstead Abbey

"It is the voice of years, that are gone! they roll before me, with all their deeds." Ossian. fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! repentant HENRY'S pride! Of Warriors, Monks, and Dames the cloister'd tomb, Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide, Hail to thy pile!

1137 words

The Progress of Poesy

A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they flow.

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...