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  2. The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus

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    The poem, like many of Oliver St. John Gogarty 's humorous verses, was written for the private amusement of his friends. In the summer of 1905, he sent a copy to James Joyce, then living in Trieste, via their common acquaintance Vincent Cosgrave. Joyce and Gogarty had quarreled the previous autumn, and Cosgrave presented the poem as a peace ...

  3. Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated - Wikipedia

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    The Owl Who Was God Apr 29, 1939 The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing Apr 29, 1939 The Stork Who Married a Dumb Wife Jul 29, 1939 The Green Isle in the Sea Feb 17, 1940 The Crow and the Oriole Jul 29, 1939 The Elephant Who Challenged the World Jul 29, 1939 The Birds and the Foxes Oct 21, 1939 The Courtship of Arthur and Al Aug 26, 1939

  4. Apocryphon of James - Wikipedia

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    James says he has written a secret book in Hebrew, revealed to him by Jesus, and has sent it to the recipient of the letter, who is "a minister of the salvation of the saints." He warns to be careful not to reveal the book to many people, since it was not meant to be revealed even to all of the twelve disciples. Jesus appeared to the disciples ...

  5. Apocryphon of John - Wikipedia

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    The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Christian polemic Against Heresies , placing its composition before 180 AD.

  6. A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief - Wikipedia

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    Montgomery did not write the poem with the intention of it being set to music. [1] It was originally written as a Christmas poem. New York City preacher George Coles set the poem to music he wrote. [1] The hymn was adopted by some Christian congregations in the United States and the United Kingdom.

  7. God's Trombones - Wikipedia

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    God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man .

  8. A Fable for Critics - Wikipedia

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    Title page for A Fable for Critics, 1848. A Fable for Critics is a book-length satirical poem by American writer James Russell Lowell, first published anonymously in 1848.. The poem made fun of well-known poets and critics of the time and brought notoriety to its aut

  9. Naked fugitive - Wikipedia

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    Antonio da Correggio, The Betrayal of Christ, with a soldier in pursuit of Mark the Evangelist, c. 1522. The naked fugitive (or naked runaway or naked youth) is an unidentified figure mentioned briefly in the Gospel of Mark, immediately after the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and the fleeing of all his disciples: