World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
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153 chapters · 7 h 49 min · English
Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin
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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
Chapters
1 Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden 20 min 2 Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning 1 min 3 A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous 3 min 4 Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall 5 min 5 Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 min 6 Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes 4 min 7 Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous 4 min 8 The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope 3 min 9 Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison 2 min 10 Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither 2 min 11 Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 6 min 12 The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett 2 min 13 Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner 1 min 14 God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope 5 min 15 Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper 1 min 16 God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin 7 min 17 God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll 2 min 18 Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard 2 min 19 Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson 2 min 20 Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts 3 min 21 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther 1 min 22 Delight in God by Francis Quarles 4 min 23 The Will of God by Frederick William Faber 3 min 24 The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason 2 min 25 The Love of God by Eliza Scudder 2 min 26 Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld 3 min 27 Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman 2 min 28 The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier 4 min 29 Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 5 min 30 O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks 3 min 31 The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears 2 min 32 Epiphany by Reginald Heber 2 min 33 On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton 12 min 34 A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett 3 min 35 Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney 2 min 36 The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout) 4 min 37 Cana by James Freeman Clarke 1 min 38 The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 2 min 39 De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene 2 min 40 The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold 1 min 41 Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min 42 A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier 1 min 43 Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone 3 min 44 Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston 3 min 45 Litany by Sir Robert Grant 2 min 46 The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench 1 min 47 Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte 5 min 48 The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 3 min 49 Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley 5 min 50 The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble 5 min 51 'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice 4 min 52 Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite 2 min 53 When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant 3 min 54 The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White 2 min 55 Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser 2 min 56 The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker 1 min 57 Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe 4 min 58 To-morrow by Lope de Vega 1 min 59 I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal 3 min 60 Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts 1 min 61 Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope 8 min 62 Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano 4 min 63 My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier 2 min 64 Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory 3 min 65 Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France 2 min 66 O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard 3 min 67 The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick 4 min 68 Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) 1 min 69 What is Prayer? by James Montgomery 2 min 70 The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett 2 min 71 Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr 4 min 72 Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer 3 min 73 Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 3 min 74 The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke 5 min 75 Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great 1 min 76 Praise by George Herbert 1 min 77 Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary 2 min 78 Desire by Matthew Arnold 3 min 79 Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall 3 min 80 Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel 2 min 81 The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts 1 min 82 The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen 3 min 83 In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough 1 min 84 From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring 1 min 85 The Higher Good by Theodore Parker 1 min 86 Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts 2 min 87 O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden 2 min 88 Faith by George Santayana 1 min 89 The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe 3 min 90 Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 91 My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall 3 min 92 A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles 2 min 93 The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind 3 min 94 The Call by George Herbert 1 min 95 Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell 3 min 96 A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson 2 min 97 Humility by James Montgomery 1 min 98 King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 13 min 99 Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning 1 min 100 The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 101 The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith 6 min 102 Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd 2 min 103 Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4 min 104 Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman 1 min 105 Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 106 In the Air by Lucy Larcom 2 min 107 Soggarth Aroon by John Banim 2 min 108 The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell 20 min 109 The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen 5 min 110 What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks 2 min 111 If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson 1 min 112 Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt 2 min 113 Love by Charles Francis Richardson 1 min 114 Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik 1 min 115 Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie 3 min 116 The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden 2 min 117 The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame 4 min 118 The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld 1 min 119 Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow 1 min 120 Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder 2 min 121 Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge 2 min 122 The Word by William Walsham How 2 min 123 The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe 3 min 124 The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor 3 min 125 A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik 2 min 126 Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 127 The Book of God by Horatius Bonar 2 min 128 The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier 12 min 129 The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 min 130 Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt 3 min 131 Religion and Doctrine by John Hay 3 min 132 Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning 11 min 133 The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler 2 min 134 The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson 4 min 135 On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 136 What Was His Creed? by Anonymous 3 min 137 The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols 4 min 138 Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton 2 min 139 My Creed by Alice Cary 2 min 140 Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter 5 min 141 O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) 3 min 142 O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 143 Day Breaks by Charles Mackay 5 min 144 My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick 3 min 145 Peace by George Herbert 3 min 146 Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal 3 min 147 Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer 2 min 148 Devotion by Philip Massinger 1 min 149 The Seaside Well by Anonymous 4 min 150 Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden 2 min 151 The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray 5 min 152 The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 153 Life by Jones Very 1 min
