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  2. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died - Wikipedia

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    I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form. Was like the stillness in the air. Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure. For that last onset, when the king. Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away.

  3. Qingjing Jing - Wikipedia

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    The Qingjing Jing (simplified Chinese: 清静经; traditional Chinese: 清靜經; pinyin: Qīngjìng Jīng; Wade–Giles: Ch'ing Ching Ching; lit. 'Classic of Clarity/Purity and Stillness/Tranquility') is an anonymous Tang dynasty Taoist classic that combines philosophical themes from the Tao Te Ching with the logical presentation of Buddhist texts and a literary form reminiscent of the Heart ...

  4. Philokalia - Wikipedia

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    The Philokalia (Ancient Greek: φιλοκαλία, lit. 'love of the beautiful', from φιλία philia "love" and κάλλος kallos "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" [1] of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They were originally written for the ...

  5. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free - Wikipedia

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    And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free " is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'.

  6. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...

  7. Poor Susan - Wikipedia

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    Full text. Lyrical ballads/Volume 2/Poor Susan at Wikisource. "Poor Susan" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth composed at Alfoxden in 1797. It was first published in the collection Lyrical Ballads in 1798. It is written in anapestic tetrameter. The poem records the memories awakening in a country girl in London on hearing a thrush sing in ...

  8. Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Beethoven) - Wikipedia

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    Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt. (Beethoven) Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112 ("Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage") is a cantata for chorus and orchestra composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is based on a pair of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They met in 1812; Beethoven admired him and the work is dedicated to Goethe.

  9. Matthew 8:27 - Wikipedia

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    Matthew 8:27. ← 8:26. 8:28 →. "Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee", from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 8:27 is a verse in the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.