Famous Absolve Poems by Famous Poets

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Allah, our Lord, is merciful, though just;

...l, though just;
Sinner! despair not, but His mercy trust!
For though to-day you perish in your sins,
To-morrow He'll absolve your crumbling dust....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar


Happy Dust

...my soul
in the shrine
Of Silence, Eternity, Peace; I abandon the Here and the
Now;
I cease from the effort to cease; I absolve the dead I from
its Vow,
I am wholly content to be dust, whether that be a mote
or a star,
To live and to love and to lust, acknowledge what seem
for what are,
Not to care what I am, if I be, whence I came, whither go,
how I thrive,
If my spirit be bound or be free, save as Nature contrive.
What I am, that I am, 'tis enough. I am part of a glorious
g...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister

Paradise Lost: Book 03

...restored 
As many as are restored, without thee none. 
His crime makes guilty all his sons; thy merit, 
Imputed, shall absolve them who renounce 
Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds, 
And live in thee transplanted, and from thee 
Receive new life. So Man, as is most just, 
Shall satisfy for Man, be judged and die, 
And dying rise, and rising with him raise 
His brethren, ransomed with his own dear life. 
So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, 
Giving to death,...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 10

..., but to will the same 
With me? How can they then acquitted stand 
In sight of God? Him, after all disputes, 
Forced I absolve: all my evasions vain, 
And reasonings, though through mazes, lead me still 
But to my own conviction: first and last 
On me, me only, as the source and spring 
Of all corruption, all the blame lights due; 
So might the wrath! Fond wish!couldst thou support 
That burden, heavier than the earth to bear; 
Than all the world much heavier, though divided...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Ballad Of The Hanged Men

...ed or has rotted.
And we the bones are becoming ash and dust.

Of our pain let nobody laugh,
but pray God
 would us all absolve.

If you my brothers I call, do not 
scoff at us in disdain, though killed
we were by justice. Yet þþ you know
all men are not of good sound sense.
Plead our behalf since we are dead naked
with the Son of Mary the Virgin
that His grace be not for us dried up
preserving us from hell's fulminations.

We're dead after all. Let no soul revile us,
but pra...Read more of this...
by Villon, Francois


The Giaour

...warmed the heart of one abhorred:
Nay, start not - no - nor bend thy knee,
Nor midst my sins such act record;
Thou wilt absolve me from the deed,
For he was hostile to thy creed!
The very name of Nazarene
Was wormwood to his Paynim spleen.
Ungrateful fool! since but for brands
Well wielded in some hardy hands,
And wounds by Galileans given -
The surest pass to Turkish heaven
For him his Houris still might wait
Impatient at the Prophet's gate.
I loved her - love will find its ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Jacquerie A Fragment

...d or cause,
Nay, tell me but some shadow of some cause,
Nay, hint me but a thin ghost's dream of cause,
(So will I thee absolve from being whipped)
Why I, Lord Raoul, should turn my horse aside
From riding by yon pitiful villein gang,
Or ay, by God, from riding o'er their heads
If so my humor serve, or through their bodies,
Or miring fetlocks in their nasty brains,
Or doing aught else I will in my Clermont?
Do me this grace, mine Idiot."
"Please thy Wisdom
An thou dost ride t...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

The Siege of Corinth

...that's past — but heaven or me. 
If this thou dost accord, albeit 
A heavy doom 'tis thine to me, 
That doom shall half absolve thy sin, 
And mercy's gate may receive within; 
But pause one moment more, and take 
The curse of Him thou didst forsake; 
And look once more to heaven, and see 
Its love for ever shut from thee. 
There is a light cloud by the moon — [7] 
'Tis passing, and will pass full soon — 
If, by the time its vapoury sail 
Hath ceased her shaded orb to veil, 
T...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

To One Shortly to Die

...lose, and half envelope it,
I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, 
I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor, 
I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodily—that is eternal—you
 yourself will surely escape, 
The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious. 

2
The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions!
Strong thoughts fill you, and confidence—you smile! 
You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick, 
You do not see the medicines—you do no...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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