World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)

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Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden
Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous
Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes
Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous
The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope
Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison
Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett
Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner
God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope
Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper
God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin
God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard
Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther
Delight in God by Francis Quarles
The Will of God by Frederick William Faber
The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason
The Love of God by Eliza Scudder
Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman
The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier
Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks
The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears
Epiphany by Reginald Heber
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett
Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)
Cana by James Freeman Clarke
The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold
Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier
Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone
Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston
Litany by Sir Robert Grant
The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench
Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte
The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley
The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble
'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice
Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite
When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant
The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White
Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser
The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker
Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe
To-morrow by Lope de Vega
I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal
Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts
Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope
Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano
My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier
Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory
Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France
O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard
The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick
Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
What is Prayer? by James Montgomery
The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett
Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.
Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer
Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke
Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great
Praise by George Herbert
Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary
Desire by Matthew Arnold
Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall
Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel
The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts
The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen
In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough
From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring
The Higher Good by Theodore Parker
Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden
Faith by George Santayana
The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe
Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall
A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles
The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind
The Call by George Herbert
Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell
A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson
Humility by James Montgomery
King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith
Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman
Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the Air by Lucy Larcom
Soggarth Aroon by John Banim
The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen
What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks
If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson
Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
Love by Charles Francis Richardson
Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie
The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden
The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame
The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow
Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder
Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge
The Word by William Walsham How
The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor
A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott
The Book of God by Horatius Bonar
The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt
Religion and Doctrine by John Hay
Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler
The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What Was His Creed? by Anonymous
The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols
Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton
My Creed by Alice Cary
Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)
O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Day Breaks by Charles Mackay
My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick
Peace by George Herbert
Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal
Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer
Devotion by Philip Massinger
The Seaside Well by Anonymous
Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden
The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray
The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Life by Jones Very

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as God; Christ; the Holy Spirit; prayer and aspiration; faith; hope; love; service; the Sabbath; worship; and creed. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by Congregational pastor and progressive writer Washington Gladden (1836-1918). - Summary by Tomas Peter