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A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
The pattern for the number of stresses in this poem is 3-3-4-4-4-3. Flow-er in the cran-nied wall, I pluck you out of the cran-nies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flow-er—but if I could un-der-stand. What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. The poem also follows an ABCCAB rhyme scheme.
"Trees" is a poem of twelve lines in strict iambic tetrameter. The eleventh, or penultimate, line inverts the first foot, so that it contains the same number of syllables, but the first two are a trochee. The poem's rhyme scheme is rhyming couplets rendered AA BB CC DD EE AA. [20]
Humbert Wolfe was born in Milan, Italy, and came from a Jewish family background, [1] his father, Martin Wolff, being of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian.
What we cannot get by ourselves Give me, my God, what remains Give me what no one ever asks of you. I do not ask for rest Nor tranquility Whether that of the soul or the body. I ask not for wealth, Or success, or even health. All that, my God, you are asked so much for That you no longer have them. Give me, my God, what remains Give me what ...
The poem has been compared to passages from the philosophy of Thomas Carlyle, a longtime friend and confidante of Tennyson's. [2]British Nonconformist divine Robert Forman Horton wrote that while "some of the older theologians" suspected Tennyson of literal pantheism, "The Higher Pantheism" "does not say that the All (Pan) is God, but that the All is a shadow of God whom we are at present too ...
God scrutinizes man: Psalms 33:13, Psalms 8:5, Psalms 144:3, Job 7:17, Job 14:3 "On Rosh Hashana all worldly creatures pass before Him like the children of Maron [ meaning, according to Gemara , 'in single-file,' like sheep being counted, hikers ascending a mountain pass, or troops passing muster ] as it says, 'He who fashions the hearts of ...
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...