or onValentine's Day. In speeches, for example at agraduationceremony, where the speaker hopes to inspire and motivate new grads to go out into the world and be the best they can be, or at afuneralormemorialservice when poems can express the pain we feel at times of sadness when the ...
Thereafter Booth turned back to preaching and evangelism, with day-to-day administration of the Army passing to his oldest son, Bramwell. The years that followed were difficult ones for William. He had to deal with three of his children leaving The Salvation Army and one dying in a train cr...
VI.A SERVICE OF SONG.Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome.Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings....
an airman knelt in the ice and snow on one knee before Mom, held out to her the folded flag, and whispered solemnly to her, “On behalf of the President of the United States of America, I thank you for your husband’s service to his country, and present to you this American flag....
Whereon their lives are threaded for Christ’s sake; Meekness and vigilance and chastity. A vowed patrol, in silent companies, Life-long they keep before the living Christ. In the dim church, their prayers and penances Are fragrant incense to the Sacrificed. Outside, the world is wild and...
7 First Day 8 Hey Mountain 9 The Beginning of Wisdom 10 A Prayer for Wisdom 11 A Solitary Sentry 12 Yearning to Bloom 13 Sacrifices 14 A New Shepherd 15 When the Evening Darkens 16 Fireworks 17 Billable 18 Oh, She is Old 19 A Carpet of Clover 20 To the Park 21 A Thorn in My Si...
After Jonathan had bid us goodnight, Adam wondered whether people might be ready for bed – ahead of our journey home the next day. No. Everyone was keen for one more round of sharing poems and prose. Ella shared a moving poem about Alzheimer’s disease, and another was a powerful accoun...
A memorial service was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.) The Best Poem Of Joyce Kilmer Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day,...
" Later on Sri Yukteswar informed Yogananda that he had been sent to him by Mahavatar Babaji for a special purpose. After passing his Intermediate Examination in Arts from the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, in June 1915, he graduated with a degree similar to a current day "Bachelor of ...
commune alone with the great God & to feel that he would listen to my prayers." The experience did not last: Dickinson never made a formal declaration of faith and attended services regularly for only a few years. After her church-going ended, about 1852, she wrote a poem opening: "...