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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The World English Bible translates the passage as: for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ θησαυρός σου, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καὶ ἡ καρδία σου.
In 1901, Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. [4] On the plaque hanging inside the Statue of Liberty, the line "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"
A biblical verse from Matthew 6:21 was inscribed onto one of the plaques: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." [5] [9] For decades, the heart was the sole public monument in Warsaw honoring Chopin that the Tsarist authorities allowed. It drew "covert displays of nationalist fervor".
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).
Sonnet 136 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection and rising to prominence in the romantic period. The poem is one of the most anthologised in the English literary canon , [ 1 ] and has been the subject of both literary criticism and many adaptations, including various ...
Dr. Leana Wen: There is abundant research showing that excessive drinking on a regular basis is associated with many chronic illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and early death.
The well where the poem is set was known as “Bowes Well,” [15] but there was another site in the vicinity, described in George Young’s History of Whitby, and Streoneshalh Abbey from 1817, where two large stones could be found, one of them bearing the inscription “Hart Leap” and serving as a memorial for a stag which died there out of ...