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The Venerable Bede Poems - Poems about The Venerable Bede


Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus
...Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus... courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace Acrimonious scurrilous words flew out the mouth of vicious nasty shortish brute leaving yours t......

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Categories: the venerable bede, abuse, analogy, anger, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exegesis
... "Exegesis" At 7 he was thrown to the wolves Bede marked his territory hidden secrets kept in the abbey he escaped went to war where ......

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Categories: the venerable bede, father daughter, love, muse,
Form: Free verse



Caedmon's Face
...Caedmon’s Face by Michael R. Burch At the monastery of Whitby, on a day when the sun sank through the sea, and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free, while the wind and Time blew all aro......

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Categories: the venerable bede, angel, christian, england, old,
Form: Verse
Caedmon's Hymn
...Caedmon's Hymn by Michael R. Burch At the monastery of Whitby, on a day when the sun sank through the sea, and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free, while the wind and time blew all aro......

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Categories: the venerable bede, angel, christian, god, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Translation: Ech Day Me Cometh Tydinges Thre
...Ech day me cometh tydinges thre "Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me" (anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Each day I’m ......

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Categories: the venerable bede, angst, anxiety, death, depression,
Form: Couplet



At Caedmon's Grave
...At Cædmon’s Grave At Caedmon's Grave by Michael R. Burch “Cædmon’s Hymn,” composed at the Monastery of Whitby (a North Yorkshire fishing village), is one of the oldest known poems written in the......

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Categories: the venerable bede, angel, bible, christian, england,
Form: Sonnet

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