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Religion is man-centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel not good enough for God.
"And Can It Be That I Should Gain?" is a Christian hymn written by Charles Wesley in 1738 to celebrate his conversion, which he regarded as having taken place on 21 May of that year. [1] The hymn celebrates personal salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus , and is one of the most popular Methodist hymns today.
The original author of this poem is unknown. There are several variations on this poem. Chris Farley (from Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy) was known to have carried this prayer with him in his wallet. [1] [2] It commonly includes the following four verses: [3] [1]
"Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.
You can talk about me much as you please The more you talk, gonna stay on my knees. Keep your hand on the plow, hold on. When I get to heaven, gonna sing and shout Be nobody there to put me out. Keep your hand on the plow, hold on. I know my robe's gonna fit me well, I tried it on at the gates of Hell. Keep your hand on the plow, hold on. Hold ...
In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...
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People could feel love if they wanted to see. Astrid Lindgren's poem is a poem of comfort and care. The author ends the text humorously. The last line reads: "so there finally would be quiet". Lindgren is tired of the humans' evil deeds, so she wants peace. The word "quiet" refers to the end of senseless noise. It does not refer to death.