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Famous Prayer Book Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Amichai, Yehuda
...sit and there they walk
Here they hate and there they love.

But he who loves Jerusalem
By the tourist book or the prayer book
is like one who loves a women
By a manual of sex positions....Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...The Rector met a little lass
Who led a heifer by a rope.
Said he: "Why don't you go to Mass?
Do you not want to please the Pope?"

The village maiden made reply,
As on the rope she ceased to pull:
"My father said this morning I
Must take Paquerette to see the bull."

The Rector frowned. ";Tis wrong, I wist
To leave your prayer-book on the shelf...Read more of this...

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