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Wolsey Poems - Poems about Wolsey


Promises, Promises
...Place not your trust in princes, who may dump you in the muck, where, as history oft evinces you will be for ever stuck. A cardinal this lesson learned, Thomas Wolsey for to name. All his fa......

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Categories: wolsey, history, power, society,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Oh Heavenly Bible
...Oh heavenly Bible, he stood there holding you A fibber, a republican, the people choice So many times I saw him at the podium Jeering and coming up against the people of God. Yet, not a bible n......

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Categories: wolsey, anger, anxiety, appreciation, black
Form: Free verse



Circumspice 5
...Part 5 -- Si Monumentum Requiris … Some tattered banners (from the Crimean War? so who on earth was fighting – and what for?) That Holman Hunt thing, over on the right, with Jesus and His lan......

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Categories: wolsey, history, , memorial,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things