Famous Regeneration Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Methodist

by Thomas Chatterton
 Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd, 
These representatives of God, 
In color, way of life and evil, 
Should be so very like the devil. 
Jack, understand, was one of those, 
Who mould religion in the rose, 
A red hot methodist; his face 
Was full of puritanic grace, 
His loose lank hair, his slow gradation, 
Declared a late regeneration;...Read more of this...

Regeneration

by Henry Vaughan
 1.

Award, and still in bonds, one day 
I stole abroad, 
It was high-spring, and all the way 
Primros'd, and hung with shade; 
Yet, was it frost within, 
And surly winds 
Blasted my infant buds, and sin 
Like clouds eclips'd my mind.

2.

Storm'd thus; I straight perceiv'd my spring 
Mere stage, and show, 
My walk a monstrous, mountain's thing 
Rough-cast with...Read more of this...

Hymn 95

by Isaac Watts
 Regeneration.

John 1:13; 3:3, etc. 

Not all the outward forms on earth,
Nor rites that God has giv'n,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heav'n.

The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace
Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.

The Spirit, like some heav'nly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh,
New-models all the carnal...Read more of this...

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