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Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts "First they came ..." (German: Als sie kamen ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈniːmœlɐ] ⓘ; 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. [1] [3] He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and for his widely quoted 1946 poem "First they came ...
Sears is said to have written these words at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, for Lunt's Sunday school. [1] One account says the carol was first performed by parishioners gathered in Sears' home on Christmas Eve, but to what tune the carol was sung is unknown as Willis ...
The poem was adapted for the lyrics of the 1930s-style swing song performed by Stacey Kent at the celebratory ball in the 1995 film William Shakespeare's Richard III. Other songs to draw lyrics from the poem include The Prayer Chain song "Antarctica" (1996) from the album of the same name, and The Real Tuesday Weld song "Let It Come Down" from ...
That poem at once attracted attention and was followed by others which were printed in various local papers. [4] She married Charles Hial Hawks in 1857 or 1859, a member of a New York banking firm, [3] and a resident of Hoosick. In January 1865, the Hawks removed to Brooklyn. [4] They attended the Hanson Place Baptist Church where Lowry was pastor.
Carl Gustav Boberg (16 August 1859 – 7 January 1940) was a Swedish poet, preacher, government official and member of parliament, best known for writing the Swedish-language poem "O Store Gud" ('O Great God') from which the English language-hymn "How Great Thou Art" is derived.
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) [1] was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England.His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."
The poem in hexa-and pentameters is formed as an acrostic which together forms the phrase Petrus Pavli fi[liu]s pastor præpositus ("Peter Paulson pastor provost"). The first verse reads in English translation: Sing with me, my flute, a sorrowful song! bring forth trembling mournful songs!