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Actually one of Dix's poems, Church Wreck had once "ill advisedly" been compared to Wordsworth. [4] By 1850 Dix was back in America writing books on temperance, but having abandoned his family in England and having taken the name John Ross and John Ross Dix. Dix was writing also on religious subjects.
Her poetry was inspired by family and church themes, and included hymns and sacred texts. She worked in several fields including book reviewing, story writing, and verse making. For a quarter of a century, Sangster was known by the public as a writer, beginning as a writer of verse, and combining later the practical work of a critic and journalist.
Philes is the counterpart of Theodorus Prodromus in the time of the Komnenoi; his character, as shown in his poems, is that of a begging poet, always pleading poverty, and ready to descend to the grossest flattery to obtain the favorable notice of the great. With one unimportant exception, his productions are in verse, the greater part in ...
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At ...
Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 The Solitary Reaper (VIII) 1803 and 1805 "Behold her, single in the field," Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe (IX) 1803 "Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream"
The reverend Frederick Kates distributed about 200 unattributed copies as devotional materials for his congregation at Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore during 1959 or 1960. [1] [3] The papers mentioned the church's foundation date of 1692, which has caused many to falsely assume that the date is that of the poem's origination. [4] [5]
Boberg was also the editor of the free-church magazine Sanningsvittnet ('Witness of the Truth') from 1889 to 1916. He published his own books and poetry through the magazine's publishing house, and bought the magazine in 1894. He was a preacher at Flora Church from 1890 to 1892 and Immanuel Church from 1892 to 1909, both in Stockholm.