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

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 (7 hr 48 min)

Chapters

Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden

Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning

A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous

Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes

Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by A…

The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope

Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison

Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believer…

Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett

Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner

God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope

Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper

God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin

God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll

Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard

Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther

Delight in God by Francis Quarles

The Will of God by Frederick William Faber

The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason

The Love of God by Eliza Scudder

Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman

The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier

Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alf…

O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks

The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears

Epiphany by Reginald Heber

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton

A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett

Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney

The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)

Cana by James Freeman Clarke

The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane

De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene

The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold

Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier

Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone

Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston

Litany by Sir Robert Grant

The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench

Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte

The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley

The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble

'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice

Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite

When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant

The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White

Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser

The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker

Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe

To-morrow by Lope de Vega

I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal

Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts

Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope

Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano

My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier

Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory

Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France

O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard

The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick

Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Ho…

What is Prayer? by James Montgomery

The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett

Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.

Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer

Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) …

Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great

Praise by George Herbert

Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary

Desire by Matthew Arnold

Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall

Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel

The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts

The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen

In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough

From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring

The Higher Good by Theodore Parker

Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts

O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden

Faith by George Santayana

The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe

Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall

A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles

The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind

The Call by George Herbert

Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell

A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson

Humility by James Montgomery

King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning

The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier

The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith

Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman

Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the Air by Lucy Larcom

Soggarth Aroon by John Banim

The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell

The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen

What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks

If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson

Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

Love by Charles Francis Richardson

Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik

Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie

The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden

The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame

The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow

Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder

Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge

The Word by William Walsham How

The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe

The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor

A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik

Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott

The Book of God by Horatius Bonar

The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier

The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt

Religion and Doctrine by John Hay

Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning

The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler

The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What Was His Creed? by Anonymous

The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols

Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton

My Creed by Alice Cary

Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter

O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tenn…

Day Breaks by Charles Mackay

My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by…

Peace by George Herbert

Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal

Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer

Devotion by Philip Massinger

The Seaside Well by Anonymous

Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden

The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray

The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Life by Jones Very