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

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

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Number of Chapters: 153

Length: 07 hours and 48 minutes

Language: English

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