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

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1 / 119The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton

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

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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

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