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While at this institution he delivered a poem, Athanasion, before the Alumni of Washington College, Hartford, at the Commencement in 1840. In the same year he published Christian Ballads, a collection of poems, suggested for the most part by the holy seasons and services of his church. The volume went into numerous editions, so much so that ...
Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that Christianity has taken hold. Christian poems often directly reference the Bible, while others provide allegory.
"Halloween" is a poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785. [1] First published in 1786, the poem is included in the Kilmarnock Edition . It is one of Burns' longer poems, with twenty-eight stanzas, and employs a mixture of Scots and English.
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" is a poem in Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1917 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English Christian traditions, and some from other religions.
Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, The Dream of the Rood exhibits many Christian and pre-Christian images, but, in the final analysis, is a Christian piece. [24] Examining the poem as a pre-Christian (or pagan) text is difficult, as the scribes who wrote it down were Christian monks who lived in a time when Christianity was firmly ...
Poems for Mothers, illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray, Holiday House, 1988. Poems for Fathers, illustrated by Robert Casilla, Holiday House, 1989. Halloween Poems, illustrated by Gammell, Holiday House, 1989. Dilly Dilly Piccalilli: Poems for the Very Young, illustrated by Eileen Christelow, Macmillan, 1989.
Wiman's poetry is characterized by multiple possible and intended readings, and metaphors which either are derived from an absence or space or undergo an evolution throughout the poem. One technique Wiman uses to communicate dual intended readings, is through repetition and scrupulous variation of punctuation and line-breaks.