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Famous Reformation Poems by Famous Poets

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...nly ray of revelation shines, 
Fresh kindling up true love and purest zeal. 


Britannia next beholds the risen day 
In reformation bright; cheerful she hails 
It from her snow-white cliffs, and bids her sons, 
Rise from the mist of popery obscure. 
Her worthier sons, whom not Rome's pontiff high, 
Nor king with arbitrary sway could move. 
Those mightier who with constancy untam'd, 
Did quench the violence of fire, at death 
Did smile, and maugre ev'ry pain, of bond, 
Cold da...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry



...
 So they called it for next day.
Thus from day to day the burghers
 Met and swallowed seas of wine,
And they vowed the reformation
 Was a mission quite divine.

And today the worthy burghers
 In that burgh upon the Rhine
Still continue their great mission,
 And still swallow seas of wine.
And they vow they will not falter
 In their great reforming task
Till the last drop has been emptied
 From the very last wine cask....Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker
...o foolishness. 

For the learning of the Lord increases daily, as the sun is an improving angel. 

For I pray God for a reformation amonst the women and the restoration of the veil. 

For beauty is better to look upon than to meddle with and tis good for a man not to know a woman. 

For the Lord Jesus made him a nosegay and blessed it and he blessed the inhabitants of flowers. 

For a faithful friend is the medicine of life, but a neighbour in the Lord is better than he. 

Fo...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher
...rs his family and to all the people at Vaux Hall. 

For the Sardinians are of the seed of David -- The Lord forward the Reformation amongst the good seed first. -- 

For the Mogul's people are the children of Phut. 

For the Old Greeks and the Italians are one people, which are blessed in the gift of Mustek by reason of the song of Hannah and the care of Samuel with regard to divine melody. 

For the Germans and the Dutch are the children of the Goths and Vandals who did a go...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher
...n be at an end. 

For the Moabites even the French are in their chastisement for humiliation. 

For I prophecy that the Reformation will make way in France when Moab is made meek by being well drubbed by the English. 

For I prophecy that the Reformation will make great way by means of the Venetians. 

For the Venetian will know that the Englishman is his brother. 

For the Liturgy will obtain in all languages. 

For England is the head and not the tail. 

For England is the ...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher



...lf together' and he started business there. 

But his life was very lonely, and his heart was very sad, 
And no help to reformation was the company he had -- 
Men who might have been, who had been, but who were not in the swim -- 
'Twas a town of wrecks and failures -- they appreciated him. 
They would ask him who the Co. was -- that ***** company he kept -- 
And he'd always answer vaguely -- he would say his partner slept; 
That he had a `sleeping partner' -- jesting while h...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry
...A Gentleman, most wretched in his Lot, 
A wrangling and reproving Wife had got, 
Who, tho' she curb'd his Pleasures, and his Food, 
Call'd him My Dear, and did it for his Good, 
Ills to prevent; She of all Ills the worst, 
So wisely Froward, and so kindly Curst. 
The Servants too experiment her Lungs, 
And find they've Breath to serve a thousand Tongues. 
...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

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