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Elihu Poems - Poems about Elihu


Not Specific This God
...Not specific this God beyond understanding Said Elihu to Job long ago. Outstretches all classification, Not bound by identity one or another, Bigger than any holy publication, God above definiti......

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Categories: elihu, god,
Form: Free verse
Not Specific This God
...Not specific this God beyond understanding Said Elihu to Job long ago. Outstretches all classification, Not bound by identity one or another, Bigger than any holy publication, God above definiti......

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Categories: elihu, god,
Form: Free verse



Leaving the War Behind
...Leaving the War Behind for Elihu Burritt, peacemaker The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on earth, good-will to men! - H. W. Longfellow, “C......

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Categories: elihu, historywar, peace, peace, war,
Form: Verse
Vox Populi Vox Dei
...[It is the spontaneous utterance of the universal conscience. - Elihu Burritt, “The Empire of Public Opinion”] Remember that day, Elihu, when you stood at your forge as the earth shook underf......

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Categories: elihu, history, peace, visionary
Form: Free verse
Christmas At the Rauhe Haus
...based on Elihu Burritt’s “Christmas in Germany” (c. 1850) You find a hand-built chapel among small homes constructed by children. But what children – vicious young ne’er-do-wells from a Dickens......

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Categories: elihu, holiday, inspirationalchildren,
Form: Free verse



Sesquipedality: Edward Capern At Boscobel House
...... [into] the oaken box in which the hunted King was secreted.... Capern essayed to descend... - Elihu Burritt, Walks in the Black Country (1868) Suppose a poet-postman, full of good Victoria......

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Categories: elihu, history
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things