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somethingdarkerSome overlap with Supernatural/Religious [category]. Some words may be there instead of here. Arbitrarily.
Abbess:
The abbess's unseen blessing dusting each morsel - Lance Larsen "In Toledo, the Sequestered Brides of Christ"
Acolyte:
Acolyte stars in hymnal to the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Gangland"
With throngs of worthy acolytes - CM Burroughs "God Letter"
With one wild honey-bee for acolyte - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"
Anchorite:
Brightens the gloom of the anchorite's cell - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Apostate:
Like some apostate monk - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"
Nothing will these Apostates please - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
Apostle.
Augur/Augury.
Avatar:
Love's radiant avatar - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
What dark god's avatar awaits - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
Tossed to their height by endless avatars - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
And my shadowy avatars renounced - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Bishop:
A game of rooks & bishops on an expanding board - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"
Congregate/Congregation.
Disciple.
Druid.
Excommunicate:
The excommunicates of Rhyme - George Meredith "The Point of Taste"
Exorcist.
Heresy/Heretic:
Heretics believe there is a forest - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"
Indigo of wizard Heresy - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Where autumn foams at the lips of heretics - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Taught them such gross heresy - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
Hermit.
Infidel:
An infidel in thought and word and grief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"
Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Messiah:
Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"
Minister.
Monk.
Nun:
A porcelain nun behind a wrought iron gate - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"
White silence like a nun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
More revolutionary than a nun - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"
Pain has all the patience of a nun - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Pagan.
Paladin:
Paladins from Jordan's shore - Charles Badham "Lines Written at Warwick Castle"
That from Valhalla brings the Paladins - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Parishioner:
Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Pastor:
In gardens pastored by snakes - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Patron Saint:
Patron saint of the rutilant and cindering - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
The patron saint of envy - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Whose patron saints are longing and despair - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"
Pilgrim/Pilgrimage.
Postulant:
Postulants for the stars' previous wisdom - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Priest/Priestess.
Probationer:
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Prophecy/Prophet.
Saint.
Synod:
Of sect, surplice, or synod - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""
And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')
Votary.
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Abbess:
The abbess's unseen blessing dusting each morsel - Lance Larsen "In Toledo, the Sequestered Brides of Christ"
Acolyte:
Acolyte stars in hymnal to the wind - Paul Cameron Brown "Gangland"
With throngs of worthy acolytes - CM Burroughs "God Letter"
With one wild honey-bee for acolyte - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"
Anchorite:
Brightens the gloom of the anchorite's cell - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Apostate:
Like some apostate monk - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"
Nothing will these Apostates please - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
Apostle.
Augur/Augury.
Avatar:
Love's radiant avatar - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
What dark god's avatar awaits - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
Tossed to their height by endless avatars - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"
And my shadowy avatars renounced - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"
A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Bishop:
A game of rooks & bishops on an expanding board - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"
Congregate/Congregation.
Disciple.
Druid.
Excommunicate:
The excommunicates of Rhyme - George Meredith "The Point of Taste"
Exorcist.
Heresy/Heretic:
Heretics believe there is a forest - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"
Indigo of wizard Heresy - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Where autumn foams at the lips of heretics - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Taught them such gross heresy - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
Hermit.
Infidel:
An infidel in thought and word and grief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"
Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Messiah:
Spoke our own gospels like mad messiahs - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"
Minister.
Monk.
Nun:
A porcelain nun behind a wrought iron gate - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"
White silence like a nun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
More revolutionary than a nun - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"
Pain has all the patience of a nun - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Pagan.
Paladin:
Paladins from Jordan's shore - Charles Badham "Lines Written at Warwick Castle"
That from Valhalla brings the Paladins - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Parishioner:
Guarded by the granite names of dead parishioners - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Pastor:
In gardens pastored by snakes - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Patron Saint:
Patron saint of the rutilant and cindering - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
The patron saint of envy - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Whose patron saints are longing and despair - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"
Pilgrim/Pilgrimage.
Postulant:
Postulants for the stars' previous wisdom - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Priest/Priestess.
Probationer:
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Prophecy/Prophet.
Saint.
Synod:
Of sect, surplice, or synod - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""
And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')
Votary.
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
