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Famous Sanctifies Poems by Famous Poets

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by Pope, Alexander
...then shall grace, or who improve the soil?
Who plants like Bathurst, or who builds like Boyle.
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense,
And splendour borrows all her rays from sense.

His father's acres who enjoys in peace,
Or makes his neighbours glad, if he increase:
Whose cheerful tenants bless their yearly toil,
Yet to their Lord owe more than to the soil;
Whose ample lawns are not asham'd to feed
The milky heifer and deserving steed;
Whose rising forests, not for...Read more of this...



by Godolphin, Sidney
...oo from a shepheards feares,
And sighs upon his fraylty spent,
Though not distinct, be eloquent?

'Tis true, the object sanctifies
All passions which within us rise,
But since noe creature comprehends
The cause of causes, end of ends,
Hee who himselfe vouchsafes to know
Best pleases his creator soe.

When then our sorrowes wee applye
To our owne wantes and poverty,
When wee looke up in all distresse
And our owne misery confesse,
Sending both thankes and prayers above,
The...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...It is a lonesome Glee --
Yet sanctifies the Mind --
With fair association --
Afar upon the Wind

A Bird to overhear
Delight without a Cause --
Arrestless as invisible --
A matter of the Skies....Read more of this...

by Godolphin, Sidney
...from a shepheards feares, 
And sighs upon his fraylty spent, 
Though not distinct, be eloquent? 

Tis true, the object sanctifies 25 
All passions which within us rise, 
But since noe creature comprehends 
The cause of causes, end of ends, 
Hee who himselfe vouchsafes to know 
Best pleases his creator soe. 30 

When then our sorrowes we applye 
To our owne wantes and poverty, 
When wee looke up in all distresse 
And our owne misery confesse 
Sending both thankes and pray...Read more of this...

by Kilmer, Joyce
...th a ghostly cricket-bat, by the stream with a ghostly 
rod;
They will touch the hearts of the living with a flame that sanctifies,
A flame that they took with strong young hands
from the altar-fires of God....Read more of this...



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