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  2. Christian child's prayer - Wikipedia

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    Catholic and Orthodox Christians have their own set of children's prayers, often invoking Mary, Mother of Jesus, angels, or the saints, and including a remembrance of the dead. Some adult prayers are equally popular with children, such as the Golden Rule ( Luke 6:31 , Matthew 7:12 ), the Doxology , the Serenity Prayer , John 3:16 , Psalm 145:15 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Christian poetry - Wikipedia

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    These included poems about the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, a poem that sympathetically describes St. Joseph's crisis of faith, about the traumatic but purgatorial sense of loss experienced by St. Mary Magdalen after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and about attending the Tridentine Mass on Christmas Day.

  6. The Village Blacksmith - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written early in Longfellow's poetic career, around the same time he published his first collection, Voices of the Night, in 1839. The book included his poem "A Psalm of Life". On October 5, 1839, he recorded in his journal: "Wrote a new Psalm of Life. It is 'The Village Blacksmith.'"

  7. Sidney Psalms - Wikipedia

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    The righteous and the sinful may be separated by the path they choose. Psalm 1 sees two paths laid out for man, "ruin's way" where "wicked counsel leads," or the way of God. This Psalm shares the motif of paths or "the way", especially choosing the right path, with the Bible; the opening line of Psalm 1 refers to "tread[ing]" the right path ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...