can anyone give me a name of a poem that i can find the text to online, a slightly religious narrative poem?

Question

a slightly religious narrative poem, that when performed lasts seven minutes at least... must be dramatic.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you can stretch it to 7 minutes... but if you're doing a dramatic performance, I'm sure you could stretch it out if you're "performing" in the true sense of the word.

Anne Bradstreet, The Flesh and the Spirit.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/212.html

Answer 2

Maybe to keep a bit of poetic suspense... For a short time you brought a memory back from long ago ground unfamiliar then coy glances awaiting return pert perspicuous words, tantalizing your ego awaiting retort, you obliged familiar ground now reproduced exhilaration surprise now, as then when the ground was unfamiliar and my feet took flight. you brought the memory back love's flirtation

Answer 3

The ressoning betuix deth and man...here is a link for the entire poem...


Mors
1: O mortall man behald tak tent to me
2: Quhilk sall thi myrrour be baith day and nycht
3: All erdly thing that evir tuke lyfe mon de
4: Paip empriour king barroun and knycht
5: Thocht thai be in thair ryell estait and hicht
6: May nocht ganestand quhen i pleis schote this derte
7: Waltownis castellis towiris neuir so wicht
8: May nocht resist quhill it be at his hart

Homo
9: Now quhat art thow that biddis me thus tak tent
10: And mak ane myrrour day and nycht of the
11: Or with thi dert i suld rycht sair repent
12: I trest trewly of that that thow sall le
13: Quhat freik on fold sa bald dar manniss me
14: Or with me fecht owthir on fute or hors
15: Is none so wicht so stark in this cuntre
16: Nor i sall gar him bow to me on fors


Mors
17: My name at me forsuth sen that thow speirs
18: Tha call me deid suthly i the declair
19: Calland all man and woman to thair beirs
20: Quhen evir i pleis quhat tyme quhat plais or quhair
21: Is nane sa stowt sa fresch nor zit sa fair
22: So zung so auld so riche nor zit so pure
23: Quhair evir i pas owthir be it lait or air
24: Man put thaim heill on fors vnder my cure
Homo
25: Sen it is sua that natur can so wirk
26: That zung and auld riche and pur man de
27: Inn my zowtheid allace is wes full irk
28: Culd nocht tak tent to gyd and gouern me
29: Ay gud to do fra evill deidis to fle
30: Trestand ay zowtheid wald with me abyd
31: Fulfilland evir my sensualitie
32: In deidly syn and speacialy in pryd

Mors
33: Thairfoir repent and remord thi conscience
34: Think on thir wirdis i now vpoun the cry
35: O wrechit man o full of ignorance
36: All thi plesance thow sall deir aby
37: Dispone for the and *** with me in hy
38: Edderis askis wirmes meit to be
39: *** quhen i call thow may me nocht deny
40: Thocht thow wer paip empriour and king al thre

Homo
41: Sen it is sua fra the i may nocht chaip
42: This wrechit warld for me heir i defy
43: And to the deid to lurk vndir thi caip
44: I offir me with hairt rycht hummilly
45: Beseikand god the deuill my enemy
46: Na power haif my saule till assay
47: Iesus on the with peteous voce i cry
48: Mercy one me to haif on domisday
(finis quod hendersone)
...well you can probably find a better English translation...wasnt sure if you wanted it in its originality...heres the link...

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HenMino.html

Answer 4

The Highwayman
It refers to hell.

Answer 5

Try this sight

www.poetryamerica.com/spiritual_poems.asp

hope this helps