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"I love to steal awhile away" (originally, "An Apology for my Twilight Rambles, Addressed to a Lady") is a Christian hymn written by Phoebe Hinsdale Brown in 1818 in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. It was Brown's habit to retire some distance from her house every day at a certain hour for meditation and prayer.
The poem shows the influence of Christian, particularly Biblical, theology, and a certain maturity of outlook, given the youth of the writer.It testifies to the writer's evident meditation on the 15th chapter of the Gospel of John, on the 8th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and to her experience of life.
All that, my God, you are asked so much for That you no longer have them. Give me, my God, what remains Give me what others refuse. I want insecurity and anxiety. I want turmoil and brawl. And that you give them to me, my God, forever So that I am always sure to have them. For I will not always have the courage to ask. Give me, my God, what you ...
Canadian singer the Weeknd references this prayer in his song "Big Sleep" from his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow, where featured artist Giorgio Moroder recites the lines "Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep, angels watch me through the night, wake me up with light" in the second verse.
My Baptismal Birth-day "God's child in Christ adopted,—Christ my all,—" 1833 1834 Epitaph. "Stop, Christian passer-by!—Stop, child of God," 1833, November 9 1834 An Apology for Spencers "Said William to Edmund I can't guess the reason" 1796, March 21 1796, March 25 Epigram On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître
The poem has also been argued to be biographical: many scholars have suggested Shakespeare used the poem to discuss his frustrating relationship with the Dark Lady, a frequent subject of many of the sonnets. (To note, the Dark Lady was definitely not Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway.) The poem emphasizes the effects of age and the associated ...
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]