Nearer My God to Thee This depicts how most human beings feel about dying -- at least about their own deaths. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after ...

Nearer, My God, to Thee. When poets get intimate with a higher power. By Robert Pinsky . John Donne. Complaining or even disputing with the gods, or with a particular god, in an intimate manner is ...

A 19th-century Christian hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” was written by English poet and hymn writer Sarah Flower Adams. Published in 1841, it was inspired by the story of Jacob’s dream in ...

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Nearer My God to Thee This depicts how most human beings feel about dying -- at least about their own deaths. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after ...