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

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

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Number of Chapters: 119

Length: 05 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

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