Religion poems

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The Legend Of St. Sophia Of Kioff

© William Makepeace Thackeray

A worthy priest he was and a stout—
 You've seldom looked on such a one;
For, though he fasted thrice in a week,
Yet nevertheless his skin was sleek;
His waist it spanned two yards about
 And he weighed a score of stone.

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The Columbiad: Book IV

© Joel Barlow

Yet must we mark, the bondage of the mind
Spreads deeper glooms, and subj ugates mankind;
The zealots fierce, whom local creeds enrage,
In holy feuds perpetual combat wage,
Support all crimes by full indulgence given,
Usurp the power and wield the sword of heaven,

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Another Chance

© Henry Van Dyke

A DRAMATIC LYRIC

Come, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!

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Birdofredum Sawin; Esq., To Mr. Hosea Biglow

© James Russell Lowell

I hed it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started,

To tech the leadin' featurs o' my gittin' me convarted;

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Old Spense

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

You've seen his place, I reckon, friend?
  'Twas rather kind ov tryin'.
The way he made the dollars fly,
  Such gimcrack things a-buyin'--
  He spent a big share ov a fortin'
  On pesky things that went a snortin'

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The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 13

© William Langland

And I awaked therwith, witlees nerhande,

And as a freke that fey were, forth gan I walke

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Conclusion Of A Letter To The Rev. Mr. C---.

© Mary Barber

'Tis Time to conclude; for I make it a Rule,
To leave off all Writing, when Con. comes from School.
He dislikes what I've written, and says, I had better
To send what he calls a poetical Letter.

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The Everlasting Mercy

© John Masefield

Thy place is biggyd above the sterrys cleer,
Noon erthely paleys wrouhte in so statly wyse,
Com on my freend, my brothir moost enteer,
For the I offryd my blood in sacrifise.
John Lydgate.

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Shakuntala Act V

© Kalidasa

ACT V

SCENE –The PALACE.

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Only Breath

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi


or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

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A Dialogue between Old England and New

© Anne Bradstreet

New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best,
2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest,
3 What ails thee hang thy head, and cross thine arms,
4 And sit i' the dust to sigh these sad alarms?

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To Francis Beaumont

© Benjamin Jonson

How I do love thee, Beaumont, and thy muse,

That unto me dost such religion use!

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Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad

© George Chapman

New light gives new directions, fortunes new,

  To fashion our endeavours that ensue.

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Starting From Paumanok

© Walt Whitman

Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers, experienced-stars, rain, snow,
  my amaze;
Having studied the mocking-bird's tones, and the mountainhawk's,
And heard at dusk the unrival'd one, the hermit thrush from the
  swamp-cedars,
Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.

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The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson

© Samuel Johnson

Yet still the gen'ral Cry the Skies assails
And Gain and Grandeur load the tainted Gales;
Few know the toiling Statesman's Fear or Care,
Th' insidious Rival and the gaping Heir.

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Thoughts On Jesus Christ's Descent Into Hell.

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal
but faint representation, was written when Goethe was only sixteen
years old. It derives additional interest from the fact of its being
the very earliest piece of his that is preserved. The few other
pieces included by Goethe under the title of Religion and Church
are polemical, and devoid of interest to the English reader.]

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On The Marriage Of The Lady Gwendolin Talbot With The Eldest Son Of Prince Borghese

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Lady! to decorate thy marriage morn,
Rare gems, and flowers, and lofty songs are brought;
Thou the plain utterance of a Poet's thought,
Thyself at heart a Poet, wilt not scorn:

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Reynard the Fox - Part 1

© John Masefield

Poor Polly's dying struck him queer,
He was a darkened man thereafter,
Cowed, silent, he would wince at laughter
And be so gentle it was strange
Even to see. Life loves to change.

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To Eliza

© George Gordon Byron

Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect,
  Who to woman deny the soul's future existence!
Could they see thee, Eliza, they'd own their defect,
  And this doctrine would meet with a general resistance.

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Water

© Philip Larkin

If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.