World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)

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The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton
The Temptation: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton
The Fall: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton
Intercession and Redemption: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton
Eve's Lament: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton
Eve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton
The Departure from Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XII by John Milton
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Gifts of God by George Herbert
Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
Self-Inquiry by Isaac Watts
The Three Enemies by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Said I Not So? by George Herbert
Nothing but Leaves by Lucy E. Akerman
The World by Frederick William Faber
The Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Sifting of Peter (A Folk-Song) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vanity by Anonymous
Different Minds by Richard Chenevix Trench
My Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
The Ladder of Saint Augustine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Saint Christopher by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Scorn Not the Least by Robert Southwell
The Right Must Win by Frederick William Faber
The Cost of Worth: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland
The Laborer by William D. Gallagher
A True Lent by Robert Herrick
From 'The Church Porch' by George Herbert
Briefs by Richard Crashaw
Jewish Hymn in Babylon by Henry Hart Milman
Example by John Keble
Small Beginnings by Charles Mackay
The Rise of Man by John White Chadwick
I Would I Were an Excellent Divine by Nicholas Breton
The Pastor's Reverie by Washington Gladden
The Two Rabbis by John Greenleaf Whittier
Judge Not by Adelaide Anne Procter
To the Unco Guid by Robert Burns
Stone the Woman, Let the Man Go Free by Anonymous (Frances Marcella Attie O'Brien)
In Prison by May Riley Smith
Conscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Found Wanting by Emily Dickinson
Dallying with Temptation: From the First Part of 'Wallenstein,' Act III. Sc. 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Easy to Drift by Oliver Huckel
Frankford's Soliloquy: From 'A Woman Killed with Kindness' by Thomas Heywood
Conscience: From Satire XIII by Juvenal
The Foolish Virgins: From 'Idylls of the King: Guinevere' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Up Hill by Christina G. Rossetti
Per Pacem ad Lucem by Adelaide Anne Procter
On his Blindness by John Milton
The Martyrs' Hymn by Martin Luther
The Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Master's Touch by Horatius Bonar
The Faithful Angel: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book V by John Milton
Low Spirits by Frederick William Faber
I Saw Thee by Ray Palmer
Losse in Delayes by Robert Southwell
The Seed Growing Secretly by Henry Vaughan
Patience by Paul Hamilton Hayne
Sometime by May Riley Smith
Father, Thy Will be Done! by Sarah Flower Adams
The Prospect by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Lost Pleiad by William Gilmore
Passing Away by John Pierpont
Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster by Sir Walter Raleigh
My Ain Countree by Mary Lee Demarest
Coming by Barbara Miller MacAndrew
Euthanasia by Willis Gaylord Clark
The Last Man by Thomas Campbell
When by Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)
Burial of Moses by Cecil Frances Alexander
The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton
'Only Waiting' by Frances Laughton Mace
Hopefully Waiting by Anson D.F. Randolph
Sit Down, Sad Soul by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
It Kindles All My Soul by Casimir of Poland
Epilogue by Robert Browning
Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
Soliloquy: On Immortality (from 'Cato,' Act V. Sc. 1) by Joseph Addison
Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria by Anonymous
The Undiscovered Country by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Song of the Silent Land by Johann Gaudenz von Salis
The Other World by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Heaven by Emily Dickinson
Thoughts of Heaven by Robert Nicoll
Nearer Home by Phoebe Cary
Meeting Above by William Leggett
My Days among the Dead by Robert Southey
The Future Life by William Cullen Bryant
Heaven by Anonymous
The Two Worlds by Mortimer Collins
The Answer by Anonymous
Forever with the Lord by James Montgomery
To Heaven Approached a Sufi Saint by Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Matter and Man Immortal: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night VI by Dr. Edward Young
Life: From 'Festus,' Scene: 'A Country Town' by Philip James Bailey
Heaven by Jeremy Taylor
The Spirit-Land by Jones Very
Heaven by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest
Tell Me, Ye Wingèd Winds by Charles Mackay
Heaven by Isaac Watts
Peace by Henry Vaughan
Star-Mist: From 'Stars' by John Keble
The Ministry of Angels: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto 8 by Edmund Spenser
Saint Agnes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Praise of the Celestial Country by Bernard de Morlaix
The New Jerusalem; or, The Soul's Breathing after the Heavenly Country by Anonymous
Paradise by Frederick William Faber
Inscription over the Gate: From 'The Divine Comedy: Hell,' Canto III by Dante Alighieri
Prayer: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto VI by Dante Alighieri
Prayer of Penitents: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XI by Dante Alighieri
Man's Free-Will: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XVI by Dante Alighieri
Fire of Purification: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XXVII by Dante Alighieri
Sin and Redemption: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto VII by Dante Alighieri
The Triumph of Christ: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XIV by Dante Alighieri
The Saints in Glory: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. - Summary by Tomas Peter