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Later James Weldon Johnson used it in his poem "The Prodigal Son", which was published in his 1927 book of poems God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. [4] The passage—which likewise refers to an arm (singular) rather than arms (plural)—reads: Young man— Young man— Your arm's too short to box with God.
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
Lord of the Dance" is a hymn written by English songwriter Sydney Carter in 1963. [1] The melody is from the American Shaker song " Simple Gifts " composed in 1848. The hymn is widely performed in English-speaking congregations and assemblies.
Attic relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above. The dithyramb (/ ˈ d ɪ θ ɪ r æ m /; [1] Ancient Greek: διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god. [2]
The poem survives in only one manuscript, Bodleian Library Rawlinson D.913, [7] which was bequeathed to the library in 1755 by the antiquarian bibliophile Richard Rawlinson. [8] Bound into this manuscript is a strip of vellum , eleven inches by four inches, on which are written about a dozen poems including "Ich am of Irlaunde", "Hay!
Sama is a means of meditating on God through focusing on melodies and dancing. It brings out a person's love of God, purifies the soul, and is a way of finding God. This practice is said to reveal what is already in one's heart, rather than creating emotions. [1]
"no more love poems #4" – Lady in Yellow; The lady in yellow claims to have lost touch with reality because she used to think she was immune to emotional pain, but she realized she is not. She gave her dance, but her dance was not enough. She says "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical / dilemma / i haven't conquered yet ...
And God Braided Eveʹs Hair, 1976; Between Dust and Dance (with prose), 1978; Nine Entered Paradise Alive, 1980; Unlocked Doors: The Selected Poems of Danny Siegel 1969‑1983, 1983; The Lord Is A Whisper at Midnight: Psalms and Prayers, 1985; The Garden, Where Wolves and Lions Do No Harm to the Sheep and Deer, 1985