enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Psalm_of_Life

    "A Psalm of Life" is a poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, often subtitled "What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist". [1] Longfellow wrote the poem not long after the death of his first wife and while thinking about how to make the best of life.

  3. And did those feet in ancient time - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in...

    Instead, the poem draws on an older story, repeated in Milton's History of Britain, that Joseph of Arimathea, alone, travelled to preach to the ancient Britons after the death of Jesus. [4] The poem's theme is linked to the Book of Revelation (3:12 and 21:2) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a New Jerusalem.

  4. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composed_upon_Westminster...

    Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

  5. Christian poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_poetry

    Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

  6. Antigonish (poem) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem)

    The poem is used in Stan Dane's book, Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald, to allude to research that Lee Harvey Oswald was the man standing on the front steps of the Texas School Book Depository and termed the "prayer man", as filmed by Dave Wiegman of NBC-TV and Jimmy Darnell of WBAP-TV during the assassination of United States ...

  7. The Collar (George Herbert) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collar_(George_Herbert)

    "The Collar" is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert published in 1633, and is a part of a collection of poems within Herbert's book The Temple. [1] The poem depicts a man who is experiencing a loss of faith and feelings of anger over the commitment he has made to God.

  8. Poetry from Daily Life: A poem influenced MLK's 'Dream ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/poetry-daily-life-poem-influenced...

    But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 March on Washington.

  9. Crossing the Bar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Bar

    Scholars have noted that the form of the poem follows the content: the wavelike quality of the long-then-short lines parallels the narrative thread of the poem. The extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" represents travelling serenely and securely from life into death. The Pilot is a metaphor for God, whom the speaker hopes to meet face to face.