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"Holy Willie's Prayer" is a poem by Robert Burns. It was written in 1785 and first printed anonymously in an eight-page pamphlet in 1789. [ 1 ] It is considered the greatest of all Burns' satirical poems , one of the finest satires by any poet, [ 2 ] and a withering attack on religious hypocrisy.
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet, author, and publisher during the early and mid 19th century.
The original, English-language piece that the central lines of Rutter's piece are directly excerpted from is a poem in the book The Dominion of Dreams: Under the Dark Star, [3] by Celtic Revival writer William Sharp / Fiona Macleod; while not containing the words "Jesus," or "Amen," [4] the poem does mention both "the Son of Peace" and "the ...
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne , his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees , whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [ 1 ]
The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...
George Herman notes that this expected role of the "three-person'd God" brings together the poem with the image of a bigger force needed for redemption: Herman proposes that "God the Father needs to break rather than knock at the heart, God the Holy Ghost to blow rather than breathe, and God the Son to burn rather than shine on the 'heart-town ...
In addition to the list of first lines which link to the poems' texts, the table notes each poem's publication in several of the most significant collections of Dickinson's poetry—the "manuscript books" created by Dickinson herself before her demise and published posthumously in 1981; the seven volumes of poetry published posthumously from ...