Famous Backsliding Poems by Famous Poets

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142. Epistle to Major Logan

..., cheek for chow, shall jog thegither,
 I’se ne’er bid better.


We’ve faults and failings—granted clearly,
We’re frail backsliding mortals merely,
Eve’s bonie squad, priests wyte them sheerly
 For our grand fa’;
But still, but still, I like them dearly—
 God bless them a’!


Ochone for poor Castalian drinkers,
When they fa’ foul o’ earthly jinkers!
The witching, curs’d, delicious blinkers
 Hae put me hyte,
And gart me weet my waukrife winkers,
 Wi’ girnin’spite.


By by yon ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Contemplations

...like a miscreant's driven from that place
76 To get his bread with pain and sweat of face.
77 A penalty impos'd on his backsliding Race. 

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78 Here sits our Grand-dame in retired place
79 And in her lap her bloody Cain new born.
80 The weeping Imp oft looks her in the face,
81 Bewails his unknown hap and fate forlorn.
82 His Mother sighs to think of Paradise
83 And how she lost her bliss to be more wise,
84 Believing him that was and is Father of lies. 

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85 Here Cai...Read more of this...
by Bradstreet, Anne

Psalm 25 part 3

...v.15-22 
S. M.
Distress of soul; or, Backsliding and desertion.

Mine eyes and my desire
Are ever to the Lord;
I love to plead his promises,
And rest upon his word.

Turn, turn thee to my soul,
Bring thy salvation near;
When will thy hand release my feet
Out of the deadly snare?

When shall the sovereign grace
Of my forgiving God
Restore me from those dangerous ways
My wand'ring feet have trod?...Read more of this...
by Watts, Isaac

The Norbert Dentressangle Van

...t they were different trees
does not occur to those who think
in anniversaries.

I drive my morning like a truck
with a backsliding load,
say bastard, bastard, always stuck
behind him on the road
(although I saw another man
in a distinct machine
last time a Dentressangle van
was on the Al4).

I draw my evening like a blind,
say darkness, darkness, that's
if not the very then the kind...
That I see only slats...
say moonlight, moonlight, shines the same...
That it's a streetla...Read more of this...
by Hannah, Sophie

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