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  2. Vespers (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Vespers (poem) Illustration by E.H. Shepard. " Vespers " is a poem by the British author A.A. Milne, first published in 1923 by the American magazine Vanity Fair, and later included in the 1924 book of Milne's poems When We Were Very Young when it was accompanied by two illustrations by E.H. Shephard. It was written about the "Christopher Robin ...

  3. Kali the Mother (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem glorifies the goddess Kali, whom Hindus associate with empowerment. In this poem, Vivekananda is worshiping the terrible form of the goddess (Kali is portrayed mostly in two forms: the popular four-armed form and the ten-armed Mahakali form, the "terrible" form). In the poem, he shows how the whole universe is a stage for the goddess's ...

  4. Efficacy of prayer - Wikipedia

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    Efficacy of prayer. A child praying before lunch in the United States, during the Great Depression in 1936. The efficacy of prayer has been studied since at least 1872, generally through experiments to determine whether prayer or intercessory prayer has a measurable effect on the health of the person for whom prayer is offered.

  5. Helen Steiner Rice - Wikipedia

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    Helen Steiner was born in Lorain, Ohio on May 19, 1900. Her father, a railroad worker, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager, which was rare for a woman at that time. She also became the Ohio State Chairwoman of the Women's Public Information Committee ...

  6. The Thunder, Perfect Mind - Wikipedia

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    The work as a whole takes the form of a poem in parallel strophes, and the author, it may be surmised, has drawn on a tradition of such poems in both Egyptian and Jewish communities, in which a similarly female divinity (Isis or aspect of the divine Sophia respectively) expounds her virtues unto an attentive audience, and exhorts them to strive ...

  7. Piers Plowman - Wikipedia

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    Prologue: The poem begins in the Malvern Hills between Worcestershire and Herefordshire.A man named Will (which can be understood either simply as a personal name or as an allegory for a person's will, in the sense of 'desire, intention') falls asleep and has a vision of a tower set upon a hill and a fortress in a deep valley; between these symbols of heaven and hell is a 'fair field full of ...

  8. Adventures from the Book of Virtues - Wikipedia

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    Ari tells "The Chest of Broken Glass", where a mother reminds her family what rewards responsibility versus irresponsibility bring and how much can be owed to those in a family. Even the poem "If You Were" sums up what responsibility everyone has to humanity for making the world better. A. Icarus and Daedalus. B. King Alfred and the Cakes C.

  9. Judah Halevi - Wikipedia

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    Judah's secular or non-religious poetry is composed of poems of friendship, love, humor, and eulogy. Drinking songs by Judah have also been preserved, [7] as well as verses relating to his vocational work as a physician. Halevi's prayer for the physician was first translated into English in 1924: [11] “My God, heal me and I shall be healed.