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She gathered up in her soul the great certainties, not of her emotions, but of her salvation: her Lord, His power, His promise. And taking pen and paper from the table she deliberately set down in writing, for her own comfort, "the formulae of her faith." Hers was a heart which always tended to express its depths in verse.
The poem addresses the Mother of God, thanking her for hearing her prayers and pleading for a bright future. When it was included in the collection The Raven and Other Poems it was lumped into one large stanza. In a copy of that collection he sent to Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe crossed out the word "Catholic."
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 ...
"Farewell, sweet Love! yet blame you not my truth;" 1806 1806, September 27 To William Wordsworth. Composed on the night after his recitation of a poem on the growth of an individual mind. "Friend of the wise! and Teacher of the Good!" 1807, January 1817 Sibylline Leaves An Angel Visitant. "Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad—" 1801? 1836
The Eucharistic poem "Welcome, sweet and sacred feast" set by Gerald Finzi as the anthem Welcome, sweet and sacred feast in Three anthems, Op. 27 (1953) [27] Peace, set as the first of Hubert Parry's Songs of Farewell (1916–1918): "My soul, there is a country". [28] Several poems set by Daniel Jones in his cantata The Country Beyond the Stars
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The first known publication, beginning The Tree of Life My Soul Hath Seen, was in London's Spiritual Magazine in August, 1761. This credits "R.H." as the submitter and presumed author. [ 1 ] R.H. has been shown most likely to refer to Rev. Richard Hutchins, a Calvinist Baptist clergyman then in Long Buckby , Northamptonshire. [ 2 ]
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