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Good night and God bless you: 2 Grant, my dear Lord, thy blessing unto me: 5 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised! In the city of our God (Miles) 2 Hark, on the highway of life a sound As crested waves of ocean roar: 9 Hark, the Sabbath bells are pealing Softly o'er the dew-kissed land: 2 Hasten away, do not delay: 3
"In the Garden" (sometimes rendered by its first line "I Come to the Garden Alone" is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years. According to Miles' great-granddaughter, the song was written "in a cold, dreary and leaky basement in Pi
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The poem is often read as a representation of the disillusionment of the post-war generation. [74] Dismissing this view, Eliot commented in 1931, "When I wrote a poem called The Waste Land, some of the more approving critics said that I had expressed 'the disillusion of a generation', which is nonsense. I may have expressed for them their own ...
"Digging" is one of Heaney's most-read poems. [3] It addresses themes of time and history and the cyclical nature of the two through the narrator's characterization of his grandfather digging in the bog on their family farm. He admires his grandfather's skill and relationship to the spade, but states that he will dig with his pen instead.
When reviewing Lawson's poetry collection In the Days when the World was Wide and Other Verses, a writer in The Evening News (Sydney) noted: "Mr. Lawson is not, indeed, likely to be ever revealed in the character of a master singer, but so far as he goes he is really a minstrel of native fire, and not like a good many who pretend to that character, a merely ingenious imitator or adaptor of ...
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The poem identifies “Paradise” with the time when “man there walked without a mate.” [18] [19] As critic Nicholas Murray comments, the Edenic state in "The Garden" is a "state of unsexual bliss where pleasure was solitary.” [20] Critic Jonathan Crewe argues that the phrase "garden-state" "captures the tendency of Renaissance pastoral ...