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

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

Open as podcastZip file
  • Genres: 
    Anthologies
  • Languages: 
    English
  • Provider: Librivox
  • Price: $0.00
  • Rating: 
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
Chapters
  • 01
    Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 02
    Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 03
    A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 04
    Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 05
    Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 06
    Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 07
    Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 08
    The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 09
    Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 10
    Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 11
    Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 12
    The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 13
    Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 14
    God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 15
    Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 16
    God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 17
    God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 18
    Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 19
    Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 20
    Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 21
    A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 22
    Delight in God by Francis Quarles
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 23
    The Will of God by Frederick William Faber
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 24
    The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 25
    The Love of God by Eliza Scudder
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 26
    Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 27
    Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 28
    The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 29
    Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 30
    O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 31
    The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 32
    Epiphany by Reginald Heber
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 33
    On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 34
    A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 35
    Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 36
    The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 37
    Cana by James Freeman Clarke
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 38
    The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 39
    De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 40
    The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 41
    Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 42
    A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 43
    Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 44
    Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 45
    Litany by Sir Robert Grant
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 46
    The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 47
    Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 48
    The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 49
    Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 50
    The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 51
    'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 52
    Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 53
    When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 54
    The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 55
    Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 56
    The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 57
    Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 58
    To-morrow by Lope de Vega
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 59
    I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 60
    Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 61
    Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 62
    Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 63
    My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 64
    Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 65
    Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 66
    O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 67
    The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 68
    Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 69
    What is Prayer? by James Montgomery
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 70
    The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 71
    Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 72
    Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 73
    Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 74
    The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 75
    Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 76
    Praise by George Herbert
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 77
    Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 78
    Desire by Matthew Arnold
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 79
    Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 80
    Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 81
    The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 82
    The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 83
    In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 84
    From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 85
    The Higher Good by Theodore Parker
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 86
    Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 87
    O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 88
    Faith by George Santayana
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 89
    The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 90
    Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 91
    My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 92
    A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 93
    The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 94
    The Call by George Herbert
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 95
    Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 96
    A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 97
    Humility by James Montgomery
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 98
    King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 99
    Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 100
    The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 101
    The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 102
    Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 103
    Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 104
    Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 105
    Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 106
    In the Air by Lucy Larcom
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 107
    Soggarth Aroon by John Banim
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 108
    The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 109
    The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 110
    What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 111
    If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 112
    Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 113
    Love by Charles Francis Richardson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 114
    Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 115
    Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 116
    The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 117
    The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 118
    The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 119
    Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 120
    Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 121
    Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 122
    The Word by William Walsham How
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 123
    The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 124
    The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 125
    A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 126
    Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 127
    The Book of God by Horatius Bonar
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 128
    The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 129
    The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 130
    Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 131
    Religion and Doctrine by John Hay
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 132
    Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 133
    The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 134
    The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 135
    On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 136
    What Was His Creed? by Anonymous
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 137
    The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 138
    Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 139
    My Creed by Alice Cary
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 140
    Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 141
    O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 142
    O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 143
    Day Breaks by Charles Mackay
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 144
    My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 145
    Peace by George Herbert
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 146
    Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 147
    Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 148
    Devotion by Philip Massinger
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 149
    The Seaside Well by Anonymous
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 150
    Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 151
    The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 152
    The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    --:--
    --:--
    Download
  • 153
    Life by Jones Very
    --:--
    --:--
    Download