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	<title>God. Real. Right. &#187; Literature</title>
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		<title>A Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sowers, sowers, sowing seeds
Little black birds scattering
Rue and thistle
Cure and weed
Some strewn with ambition
Some mislaid carelessly
Cement scrapers tearing virgin skies
Bear spoiled fruit from sterile thighs
The lights, bright suns of wind spun strength
Ignite the night&#8217;s quiet suffering
Each desire, each created thing
Bows submissive at a throne
At inheritance&#8217;s intoxicating persuasive drone
The losers win and the winner dies
And make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Windhover, by Gerard Manley Hopkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Christ our Lord 
I caught this morning morning&#8217;s minion, king-
dom of daylight&#8217;s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate&#8217;s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift Outright</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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by Robert Frost
The land was ours before we were the land&#8217;s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were England&#8217;s, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Altar, by George Herbert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishing this poem accomplishes the goal it states in the ante-penultimate (a great term for &#8220;third from the end&#8221;) line. The poem itself reflects the take-and-give attitude with which all followers follow Jesus. And, yes, Herbert deliberately wrote the shape into the poem as he did with at least one other, &#8220;Easter Wings.&#8221;
A broken ALTAR, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Donne: Batter My Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This poem became my favorite when I first read it in college. It has remained so since. Ignore the numbers, of course. They are only provided to relate line-for-line with the paraphrase which follows. The paraphrase is an interpreted, applied, reading which may help clarify the sonnet for those who struggle a bit with Donne&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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