We insert a few extracts from the original version, which in this refined age will appear rather ludicrous, and unsuited to the dignity of sacred poetry.
To the disgrace of sacred music, sacred poetry, and our established worship, these Psalms still continue to be sung in the Church of England.
But what specially characterised this period was a rich development of sacred poetry, some remnants of which are perhaps extant in our "Cædmon.
When this heavenly call was recognised, the herdsman became a brother of the religious fraternity, and devoted his life to the pursuit of sacred poetry.
The most considerate reviewer, therefore, of a volume of sacred poetry, will think it a subject on which it is easier to say too much than too little.
His bursts of sacred poetry, compared with his Greenland, remind us of a person singing enchantingly by ear, but becoming languid and powerless the moment he sits down to a note-book.
But before we indulge such a preference, we should do well to consider, whether it is quite agreeable to that spirit, which alone can make us worthy readers of sacred poetry.
In your letter, for which also I thank you, you allude to your Preface, and desire to know if my opinion concurs with yours on the subject of sacred poetry.
I must try to give you a summary of a long conversation I had with Wordsworth on the subject of sacred poetry, and which I wish I were able to report in full.
Memorandum of a Conversation on Sacred Poetry (by Rev.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacred poetry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
