Best Litany Poems
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"A Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas Nashe
16 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 2 comments
Comments:
fantastic
Added 14 years ago by lika, 0 points
"ADIEU, farewell earth's bliss,/ This world uncertain is:/ Fond are life's lustful joys/ Death proves them all but toys./ None from his darts can fly:/ I am sick, I must die/ Lord have mercy on us!"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Litany in War-Time" by J.W. Allen
8 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"The naked we have not clothed,/ The hungry we have not fed,/ The women degraded and outcast,/ The children crying for bread!/ Vanity, sloth and falsehood,/ Luxury, greed and fear,/ Help, Lord, to cast them behind us,/ Now that Thy Word is clear."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"A Litany" by Gregory Orr
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"In the bowl, among the vegetable chunks,/ pale shapes of the alphabet bobbed at random/ or lay in the shallow spoon."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus" by Adrienne Rich
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"A woman with the nerves of a panther/ a woman with contacts among Hell's Angels/ a woman feeling the fullness of her powers/ at the precise moment when she must not use them"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Because" by Linda Pastan
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Litany" by Billy Collins
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Litany for Dictatorships" by Stephen Vincent Benet
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong./ We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom... Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth./ Our children know and suffer the armed men."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"A Litany" by John Ashbery
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
10.
"Beatitudes" by Andrew Hudgins
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Litany to the Holy Spirit" by Robert Herrick
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Litany of Our Lady" by Brenda Marie Osbey
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"War Profit Litany" by Allen Ginsberg
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Litany" by Dana Gioia
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"A Political Litany" by Phillip Freneau
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
17.
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by Walt Whitman
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Litany of Nations" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"A LItany" by John Donne
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Litany for Donerail" by Patrick O' Kelly
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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