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Henry Scott Holland: A Voice of Compassion. Henry Scott Holland was an influential priest, theologian, and poet during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Holland’s poetry was relatable to many as he explores themes of death, loss, and grief. Poems Cite. Henry Scott Holland was a highly religious figure who delved into poetry, focusing on the ...
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- Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are.
- Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way. which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
- Laugh as we always laughed. at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word.
- Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind. because I am out of sight?
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Jun 8, 2018 · A CENTURY after his death, Henry Scott Holland is remembered mainly for some familiar words of comfort (“Death is nothing at all. . .”), and a rousing hymn (“Judge eternal, throned in splendour”). He deserves better, being the most imaginative Tractarian theologian and social reformer of his generation, whose words and works helped to ...
Mar 18, 2024 · Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland is an elegy. This means that the poem is intended as an exploration of death. In this case, it has a more optimistic note to it as it focuses on the memory of those who have passed as well as the spiritual belief that they are not entirely gone. Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland was ...
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of it. Life is the only reality, the only truth. Death is mere blindness, mere negation. “Death cannot praise, Thee, O God; the grave cannot celebrate Thee. The living, the living, they can only praise Thee, as I do this day.” So the Scripture cried out long ago. So we cry in our angry protest, in our bitter anguish, as
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William V (Willem Batavus; 8 March 1748 – 9 April 1806) was Prince of Orange and the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He went into exile to London in 1795. He was furthermore ruler of the Principality of Orange-Nassau until his death in 1806. In that capacity he was succeeded by his son William .
Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All” I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.
