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Welcome to our collection of poems about religion! Religion has been a source of inspiration for poets for centuries, and our collection brings together some of the most beautiful and thought-provoking religious poetry from around the world. Whether you're seeking comfort, inspiration, or a deeper understanding of your faith, our collection has something for everyone. From the divine mysteries of Christianity to the teachings of Islam and Buddhism, these poems explore the complex relationship between humanity and the divine. So take a moment to reflect on the spiritual journey through the power of poetry, and discover the beauty and richness of religious expression in verse.

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The Heaven vests for Each
— Emily Dickinson
The Heaven vests for Each
In that small Deity
It craved the grace to worship
Some bashful Summer's...
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The Wise Men
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Step softly, under snow or rain,
  To find the place where men can pray;
The way is all so very plain
  That we may lose the...
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Heartbreaking
— Joanne Boyle
I hope there is a Heaven,
With someone waiting there.
Where fear doesn't live,
And there's only love to share.

I hope there's someone's arms,
To...
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The Incarnate One
— Edwin Muir
The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream,
And Calvin's kirk crowning the barren brae.
I think of Giotto the Tuscan shepherd's dream,
Christ, man...
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Crossover
— Kurt Philip Behm
Writing verse,
  my distractions are few

Prose unwritten,
  the Muse importunes

Writing in meter,
  writing in...
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The Vanquished Knight
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I HAVE left all upon the shameful field,
Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life;
Spurless, with sword reversed and dinted shield,
Degraded and...
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The Thought That Lingers: Part Six
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
The search for wholeness is the search
of modern man; the quest,
to regain knowledge of the Divine Self;
and remove his Edenic stain; his blemish.

...
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The Sign Of The Cross
— John Henry Newman
WHENE’ER across this sinful flesh of mine
I draw the Holy Sign,
All good thoughts stir within me, and renew
Their slumbering strength divine;
Till...
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The Celestial Surgeon
— Robert Louis Stevenson
IF I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness;
If I have moved among my race
And shown no glorious morning face;
If beams from happy...
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My God is good to me
— Anthony Logan
The things my God has done for me ,is more than amazing or can't you see .....He shines His light so bright on me for surely all the world to see...
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Unbaptized Inside Us
— Kurt Philip Behm
Without religion,
  where would we hide

What would be our reason,
  could souls justify

What would excuse the killing,
  cleaning deaths stain...
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A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, when a Child
— Matthew Prior
MY noble, lovely, little Peggy,
Let this my First Epistle beg ye,
At dawn of morn, and close of even,
To lift your heart and hands to Heaven.
In...
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Psalm 97 part 2
— Isaac Watts
v.6-9
L. M.
Christ's...
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Summoned or not God is Ever Present
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
God’s dwelling place is everywhere.
And everywhere is God’s dwelling place.
We cannot escape God.
The architect of our consciousness.

Since for...
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The Master's Touch
— Brian Duffin
Though trials to us God doth give
In the refiner’s fire, we now live
Shaped and formed with searing heat
The Master’s touch makes us...
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Sweet Horn
— Philip Henry Savage
WHAT is St. Francis' flower? 'T is not
The daisy nor the melilot,
Nor that white little flower that springs
In Grasmere's quiet...
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The Eleusinian Festival
— Friedrich Schiller
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear!
 With it, the Cyane [31] blue intertwine
Rapture must render each glance bright and clear,
 For the great...
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Prayer Answered by Crosses
— John Newton
I ask'd the Lord, that I might grow
In faith, and love, and ev'ry grace,
Might more of his salvation know,
And seek more earnestly his...
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Love and Submission
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Marriage union
is union of spirit.
The union of two,
in Holy Communion,
sanctified by the spirit.

It is a binding
both holy and secular:
two...
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God, the Prototype of Singularity
— Karl Constantine FOLKES
Him at the Center.
Singularity of God.
Compressed to Zero.
Property is Infinite.
His density is unknown.

His immensity.
Physicists cannot measure....
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I Love Jesus
— Anthony Logan
Dear Lord as I go on in life living in your will.....continue to guide me and tell me when to be still.....As I live in your will each and everyday ,I see...
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The Stork's Vocation
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
THE stork who worms and frogs devours

That in our ponds reside,
Why should he dwell on high church-towers,

With which he's not...
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The Witness Of Love
— Liam Ó Comáin
Oh, Immaculate Mother of God,
You are the most important witness
Of the eternal love that Our Creator
Has for each of...
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Psalm 144 part 2
— Isaac Watts
v.3-6
C. M.
The vanity of man and condescension of...
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Histrion
— Ezra Pound
No man hath dared to write this thing as yet,
And yet I know, how that the souls of all men great
At times pass athrough us,
And we are melted into...
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