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

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

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153 Chapter(s)
  • 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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