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  2. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Biblical poetry - Wikipedia

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    The employment of unusual forms of language cannot be considered as a sign of ancient Hebrew poetry. In Genesis 9:25–27 and elsewhere the form lamo occurs. But this form, which represents partly lahem and partly lo, has many counterparts in Hebrew grammar, as, for example, kemo instead of ke-; [2] or -emo = "them"; [3] or -emo = "their"; [4] or elemo = "to them" [5] —forms found in ...

  4. Psalm 119 - Wikipedia

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    The psalm, which is anonymous, is referred to in Hebrew by its opening words, "Ashrei temimei derech" ("happy are those whose way is perfect"). In Latin, it is known as "Beati inmaculati in via qui ambulant in lege Domini". [1] The psalm is a hymn psalm and an acrostic poem, in which each set of eight verses begins with a letter of the Hebrew ...

  5. Psalms - Wikipedia

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    Some of the psalms show influences from related earlier texts from the region; examples include various Ugaritic texts and the Babylonian EnÅ«ma Eliš. These influences may be either of background similarity or of contrast. For example, Psalm 29 shares characteristics with Canaanite religious poetry and themes. Not too much should be read into ...

  6. Sidney Psalms - Wikipedia

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    The Sidney Psalms are seen as "The most extreme example in this century of the wish to foster through translation an appreciation of the Psalms as poetry is the ...

  7. Antithetic parallelism - Wikipedia

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    Examples of antithetic parallelism are found in Hebrew poetry, [1] especially in Psalms of the Bible: . The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

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  9. Psalms of Solomon - Wikipedia

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    The Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms, religious songs or poems, written in the first or second century BC.They are classed as Biblical apocrypha or as Old Testament pseudepigrapha; they appear in various copies of the Septuagint and the Peshitta, but were not admitted into later scriptural Biblical canons or generally included in printed Bibles after the arrival of the printing ...