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“faith” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 8 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 162 1800s 18 / 683 1850s 32 / 939 1900s 13 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 13 with this theme Show all eras

A Hymn

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A Hymn

by G. K. Chesterton · English

29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936 (~62)

A Hymn for the Church Militant

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A Hymn for the Church Militant

by G. K. Chesterton · English

29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936 (~62)

A Sense of Humor

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A Sense of Humor

by Edgar A. Guest · English

20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959 (~78)

Gerontion

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Gerontion

by T. S. Eliot · English

26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965 (~77)

Heaven

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Heaven

by Rupert Brooke · English

3 August 1887 - 23 April 1915 (~28)

Key West

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Key West

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Let for one moment a faith statement

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Let for one moment a faith statement

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Millicent Passes

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Millicent Passes

by Cale Young Rice · English

7 December 1872 - 24 January 1943 (~71)

No man believes

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No man believes

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Serenity

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Serenity

by Charles Bertram Johnson · English

5 October 1880 - 20 March 1958 (~78)

To Eros

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To Eros

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

We who are young are old

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We who are young are old

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

¡Viva la Virgen del Rocío!

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¡Viva la Virgen del Rocío!

by Manuel Machado · Spanish

29 August 1874 - 19 January 1947 (~73)

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