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Traditional Illustrations

The orthodox, historical consensus of biblical interpretation.

Key question: “What is the most widely accepted and historically grounded understanding of this text?”

25,889 sermon illustrations through the Traditional lens

Poetry

Troilus and Criseyde: Book IV

But al to litel, weylaway the whyle, Lasteth swich Ioye, y-thonked be Fortune!

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Geoffrey Chaucer

11680 words

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Fable

The Cock and the Pearl

Precious things are for those that can prize them

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Aesop

Short14 words

Fable

The Fox and the Stork

One bad turn deserves another

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire

Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink, First of this thing, and that thing, and t'other thing think; Then my thoughts come so pell-mell all into my mind, That the sense or the subject I never...

The Age of Bronze

The "good old times"--all times when old are good-- Are gone; the present might be if they would; Great things have been, and are, and greater still Want little of mere mortals but their will: A wider space, a greener...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

5061 words

Poetry

The Bride of Abydos. a Turkish Tale

"Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met--or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted."-- Burns . CANTO THE FIRST. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

7622 words

Poetry

Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan

When the last sunshine of expiring Day In Summer's twilight weeps itself away, Who hath not felt the softness of the hour Sink on the heart, as dew along the flower?

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

767 words

Poetry

Tam O'Shanter

A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." —Gawin Douglas.

Ode to the West Wind

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to...

The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa

Dearest, best and brightest, Come away, To the woods and to the fields! Dearer than this fairest day Which, like thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough Year just awake In its cradle in the brake.

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10265 words

Poetry

Song of the Open Road.

1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

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Walt Whitman

2601 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Crane

Gratitude and greed go not together

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Thyrsis, a Monody

How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village street its haunted mansion lacks, And from the sign is gone Sibylla's name, And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks--...

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Matthew Arnold

1569 words

Fable

The Peacock and Juno

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

Epipsychidion

VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY, EMILIA V--, NOW IMPRISONED IN THE CONVENT OF --. L'anima amante si slancia fuori del creato, e si crea nell' infinito un Mondo tutto per essa, diverso assai da questo oscuro e pauroso baratro.

Snowbound, a Winter Idyl

To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine...

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John Greenleaf Whittier

4004 words

Poetry

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.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

599 words

Poetry

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...

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Edmund Spenser

2020 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

Fable

The Sick Lion

Only cowards insult dying majesty

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

The Building of the Ship

"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!" The merchant's word Delighted the Master heard; For his heart was in his work, and the...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2083 words

Poetry

Remembrances

Summer's pleasures they are gone like to visions every one, And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on. I tried to call them back, but unbidden they are gone Far away from heart and eye and forever far away.

Paradise Regained: The Second Book

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late expressly called Jesus Messiah, Son of God, declared, And on that high authority had believed, And with him talked, and...

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John Milton

3243 words