Examples of Christian Poems
- St. Patrick's Breastplate - Old Irish. 8th century prayer for protection
- Piers Plowman (1360 - 1399) - Middle English, an allegory of correct Christian life, written in unrhymed alliterative verse
- The Divine Comedy (1265 - 1321) - Italian. The author, Dante, is guided through Hell and Purgatory by Virgil and through Heaven by Beatrice. Uses complex rhyming (Terza rima). (translation)
- Dies Iræ (13th century) - Thomas of Celano's celebrated sequence on the Last Judgment (Latin text).
- Paradise Lost (1667) and Paradise Regained (1671) - John Milton's English epics on the fall and salvation of the human race. (texts: Paradise Regained and Paradise Lost)
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