A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- 'All is vanity, saith the preacher'
- A bruised reed He shall not break
- A curse on Herod
- A handful of dust
- A hymn to Christ
- A Laodicean
- A little East of Jordan
- A man who had fallen among thieves
- A small fig tree
- A song for Simeon
- A word made flesh is seldom
- Aaron
- Aaron's Rod
- Abel's Blood
- Abraham
- Abraham to kill him
- Absalom
- Absalom and Achitophel
- Absalom, Absalom!
- According to the Mighty Working
- Adam's curse
- Adam's dream
- Advent (Used in the title of a number of poems)
- After the Fall
- After this, the judgement
- Agape
- All my sons
- Altar, The
- And death shall have no dominion
- And he answered them nothing
- And there was a great calm
- Angry Samson
- Annunciation, The
- Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom
- Armageddon
- As Adam early in the morning
- Ascension
- Ascension Day 1964
- Ascension-day
- At Calvary near the Ancre
- At the manger Mary sings
- Babel
- Babel Tower
- Back to Methuselah
- Ballad of the Bread Man
- Battle of Gibeon, The
- Beauty of Job's daughters, The
- Bedridden peasant to the unknown God, The
- Being breadlike
- Belshazzar had a letter
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Altar, The
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PoemDefinition
An altar is a place where offering for sin can be madeCultural References
Big ideas: Sin; Atonement and sacrificeA raised stucture on which religious ceremonies are performed.
Disobedience to the known will of God. According to Christian theology human beings have displayed a pre-disposition to sin since the Fall of Humankind.
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