
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1) - Free Audiobook
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1 / 153Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden
- 1. Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden
- 2. Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
- 3. A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous
- 4. Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
- 5. Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6. Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes
- 7. Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous
- 8. The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope
- 9. Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison
- 10. Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither
- 11. Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 12. The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett
- 13. Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner
- 14. God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope
- 15. Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper
- 16. God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin
- 17. God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll
- 18. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard
- 19. Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 20. Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
- 21. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther
- 22. Delight in God by Francis Quarles
- 23. The Will of God by Frederick William Faber
- 24. The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason
- 25. The Love of God by Eliza Scudder
- 26. Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
- 27. Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman
- 28. The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier
- 29. Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 30. O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks
- 31. The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears
- 32. Epiphany by Reginald Heber
- 33. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
- 34. A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett
- 35. Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney
- 36. The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)
- 37. Cana by James Freeman Clarke
- 38. The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
- 39. De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
- 40. The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold
- 41. Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 42. A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier
- 43. Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone
- 44. Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston
- 45. Litany by Sir Robert Grant
- 46. The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench
- 47. Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte
- 48. The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- 49. Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley
- 50. The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble
- 51. 'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice
- 52. Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite
- 53. When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant
- 54. The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White
- 55. Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser
- 56. The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker
- 57. Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 58. To-morrow by Lope de Vega
- 59. I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal
- 60. Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts
- 61. Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope
- 62. Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano
- 63. My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier
- 64. Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory
- 65. Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France
- 66. O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard
- 67. The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick
- 68. Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
- 69. What is Prayer? by James Montgomery
- 70. The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett
- 71. Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.
- 72. Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer
- 73. Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
- 74. The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke
- 75. Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great
- 76. Praise by George Herbert
- 77. Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary
- 78. Desire by Matthew Arnold
- 79. Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall
- 80. Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel
- 81. The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts
- 82. The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen
- 83. In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough
- 84. From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring
- 85. The Higher Good by Theodore Parker
- 86. Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
- 87. O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden
- 88. Faith by George Santayana
- 89. The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe
- 90. Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 91. My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall
- 92. A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles
- 93. The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind
- 94. The Call by George Herbert
- 95. Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell
- 96. A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson
- 97. Humility by James Montgomery
- 98. King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 99. Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
- 100. The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier
- 101. The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith
- 102. Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
- 103. Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 104. Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman
- 105. Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 106. In the Air by Lucy Larcom
- 107. Soggarth Aroon by John Banim
- 108. The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
- 109. The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen
- 110. What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks
- 111. If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson
- 112. Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
- 113. Love by Charles Francis Richardson
- 114. Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
- 115. Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie
- 116. The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden
- 117. The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame
- 118. The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
- 119. Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow
- 120. Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder
- 121. Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge
- 122. The Word by William Walsham How
- 123. The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
- 124. The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor
- 125. A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
- 126. Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott
- 127. The Book of God by Horatius Bonar
- 128. The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier
- 129. The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 130. Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt
- 131. Religion and Doctrine by John Hay
- 132. Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
- 133. The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler
- 134. The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 135. On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 136. What Was His Creed? by Anonymous
- 137. The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols
- 138. Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton
- 139. My Creed by Alice Cary
- 140. Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
- 141. O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)
- 142. O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 143. Day Breaks by Charles Mackay
- 144. My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick
- 145. Peace by George Herbert
- 146. Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal
- 147. Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer
- 148. Devotion by Philip Massinger
- 149. The Seaside Well by Anonymous
- 150. Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden
- 151. The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray
- 152. The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 153. Life by Jones Very
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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
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