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

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

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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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  • 01
    Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden
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  • 02
    Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
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    A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous
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    Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
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    Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes
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    Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous
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    The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope
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    Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison
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    Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither
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    Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett
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    Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner
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    God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope
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    Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper
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    God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin
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    God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll
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    Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard
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    Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
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    A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther
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    Delight in God by Francis Quarles
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    The Will of God by Frederick William Faber
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    The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason
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    The Love of God by Eliza Scudder
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    Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
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    Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman
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    The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks
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    The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears
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    Epiphany by Reginald Heber
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    On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
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    A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett
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    Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney
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    The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)
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    Cana by James Freeman Clarke
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    The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
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    De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
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    The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold
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    Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier
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    Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone
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    Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston
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    Litany by Sir Robert Grant
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    The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench
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    Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte
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    The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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    Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley
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    The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble
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    'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice
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    Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite
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    When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant
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    The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White
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    Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser
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    The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker
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    Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    To-morrow by Lope de Vega
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    I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal
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    Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts
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    Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope
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    Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano
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    My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier
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    Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory
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    Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France
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    O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard
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    The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick
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    Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
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    What is Prayer? by James Montgomery
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    The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett
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    Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr
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    Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer
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    Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
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    The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke
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    Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great
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    Praise by George Herbert
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    Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary
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    Desire by Matthew Arnold
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    Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall
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    Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel
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    The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts
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    The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen
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    In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough
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    From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring
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    The Higher Good by Theodore Parker
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    Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
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    O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden
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    Faith by George Santayana
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    The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe
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    Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall
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    A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles
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    The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind
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    The Call by George Herbert
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    Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell
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    A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson
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    Humility by James Montgomery
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    King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
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    The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith
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    Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
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    Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman
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    Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    In the Air by Lucy Larcom
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    Soggarth Aroon by John Banim
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    The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
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    The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen
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    What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks
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    If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson
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    Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
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    Love by Charles Francis Richardson
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    Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
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    Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie
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    The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden
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    The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame
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    The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
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    Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow
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    Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder
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    Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge
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    The Word by William Walsham How
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    The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
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    The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor
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    A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
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  • 126
    Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott
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    The Book of God by Horatius Bonar
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    The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt
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    Religion and Doctrine by John Hay
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    Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
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    The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler
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    The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • 135
    On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    What Was His Creed? by Anonymous
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    The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols
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    Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton
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    My Creed by Alice Cary
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    Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
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    O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)
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    O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Day Breaks by Charles Mackay
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    My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick
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    Peace by George Herbert
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    Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal
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    Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer
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    Devotion by Philip Massinger
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    The Seaside Well by Anonymous
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    Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden
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    The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray
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    The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Life by Jones Very
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