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Famous Chrism Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Chrism poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous chrism poems. These examples illustrate what a famous chrism poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...ss in the sea;
My passion purifies my pain
To peace past personality.

Love of my life, God grant the years
Confirm the chrism - rose to rood!
Anointing loves, asperging tears
In sanctifying solitude! 

Man is so infinitely small
In all these stars, determinate.
Maker and moulder of them all,
Man is so infinitely great!...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister



...he lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree ?
The chrism is on thine head,--on mine, the dew,--
And Death must dig the level where these agree....Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...laid,[Pg 16]
And labour's painful sweat-beads made
A consecrating chrism.
No other race, or white or black,
When bound as thou wert, to the rack,
So seldom stooped to grieving;
No other race, when free again,
Forgot the past and proved them men
So noble in forgiving.
Go on and up! Our souls and eyes
Shall follow thy continuous rise;
Our ears shall list thy story
From bards who from thy root shall spring,
And pro...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,—
And Death must dig the level where these agree....Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...ed in height
The first, and sought the forehead, and half missed,
Half falling on the hair. O beyond meed!
That was the chrism of love, which love's own crown,
With sanctifying sweetness, did precede.
The third upon my lips was folded down
In perfect, purple state; since when, indeed,
I have been proud and said, 'My love, my own.'...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett



...ttice-lights at me¡ª 10 
A poor tired wandering singer singing through 
The dark and leaning up a cypress tree? 
The chrism is on thine head¡ªon mine the dew¡ª 
And Death must dig the level where these agree. ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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