World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)
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119 chapters · 5 h 21 min · English
Read by Craig Franklin, Sonia, Tomas Peter, Leanne Yau, Jason in Panama
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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
Chapters
1 The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton 2 min 2 The Temptation: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton 11 min 3 The Fall: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton 4 min 4 Intercession and Redemption: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton 5 min 5 Eve's Lament: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton 2 min 6 Eve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton 1 min 7 The Departure from Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XII by John Milton 1 min 8 A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 9 The Gifts of God by George Herbert 2 min 10 Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper 1 min 11 Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth 4 min 12 Self-Inquiry by Isaac Watts 1 min 13 The Three Enemies by Christina Georgina Rossetti 3 min 14 Said I Not So? by George Herbert 2 min 15 Nothing but Leaves by Lucy E. Akerman 2 min 16 The World by Frederick William Faber 3 min 17 The Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7 min 18 The Sifting of Peter (A Folk-Song) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 19 Vanity by Anonymous 1 min 20 Different Minds by Richard Chenevix Trench 1 min 21 My Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2 min 22 The Ladder of Saint Augustine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 23 Saint Christopher by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 3 min 24 Scorn Not the Least by Robert Southwell 2 min 25 The Right Must Win by Frederick William Faber 2 min 26 The Cost of Worth: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland 2 min 27 The Laborer by William D. Gallagher 3 min 28 A True Lent by Robert Herrick 1 min 29 From 'The Church Porch' by George Herbert 3 min 30 Briefs by Richard Crashaw 1 min 31 Jewish Hymn in Babylon by Henry Hart Milman 4 min 32 Example by John Keble 1 min 33 Small Beginnings by Charles Mackay 3 min 34 The Rise of Man by John White Chadwick 1 min 35 I Would I Were an Excellent Divine by Nicholas Breton 2 min 36 The Pastor's Reverie by Washington Gladden 5 min 37 The Two Rabbis by John Greenleaf Whittier 6 min 38 Judge Not by Adelaide Anne Procter 2 min 39 To the Unco Guid by Robert Burns 4 min 40 Stone the Woman, Let the Man Go Free by Anonymous (Frances Marcella Attie O'Brien) 2 min 41 In Prison by May Riley Smith 3 min 42 Conscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1 min 43 Found Wanting by Emily Dickinson 1 min 44 Dallying with Temptation: From the First Part of 'Wallenstein,' Act III. Sc. 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2 min 45 Easy to Drift by Oliver Huckel 2 min 46 Frankford's Soliloquy: From 'A Woman Killed with Kindness' by Thomas Heywood 1 min 47 Conscience: From Satire XIII by Juvenal 4 min 48 The Foolish Virgins: From 'Idylls of the King: Guinevere' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 49 Up Hill by Christina G. Rossetti 1 min 50 Per Pacem ad Lucem by Adelaide Anne Procter 2 min 51 On his Blindness by John Milton 1 min 52 The Martyrs' Hymn by Martin Luther 1 min 53 The Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh 4 min 54 The Master's Touch by Horatius Bonar 1 min 55 The Faithful Angel: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book V by John Milton 1 min 56 Low Spirits by Frederick William Faber 3 min 57 I Saw Thee by Ray Palmer 2 min 58 Losse in Delayes by Robert Southwell 3 min 59 The Seed Growing Secretly by Henry Vaughan 1 min 60 Patience by Paul Hamilton Hayne 2 min 61 Sometime by May Riley Smith 3 min 62 Father, Thy Will be Done! by Sarah Flower Adams 2 min 63 The Prospect by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min 64 The Lost Pleiad by William Gilmore 4 min 65 Passing Away by John Pierpont 4 min 66 Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster by Sir Walter Raleigh 1 min 67 My Ain Countree by Mary Lee Demarest 3 min 68 Coming by Barbara Miller MacAndrew 6 min 69 Euthanasia by Willis Gaylord Clark 2 min 70 The Last Man by Thomas Campbell 4 min 71 When by Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) 3 min 72 Burial of Moses by Cecil Frances Alexander 4 min 73 The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton 2 min 74 'Only Waiting' by Frances Laughton Mace 2 min 75 Hopefully Waiting by Anson D.F. Randolph 3 min 76 Sit Down, Sad Soul by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 1 min 77 It Kindles All My Soul by Casimir of Poland 2 min 78 Epilogue by Robert Browning 2 min 79 Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 80 The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope 1 min 81 Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth 11 min 82 Soliloquy: On Immortality (from 'Cato,' Act V. Sc. 1) by Joseph Addison 3 min 83 Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria by Anonymous 3 min 84 The Undiscovered Country by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2 min 85 Song of the Silent Land by Johann Gaudenz von Salis 2 min 86 The Other World by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 min 87 Heaven by Emily Dickinson 1 min 88 Thoughts of Heaven by Robert Nicoll 3 min 89 Nearer Home by Phoebe Cary 2 min 90 Meeting Above by William Leggett 2 min 91 My Days among the Dead by Robert Southey 2 min 92 The Future Life by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 93 Heaven by Anonymous 3 min 94 The Two Worlds by Mortimer Collins 3 min 95 The Answer by Anonymous 2 min 96 Forever with the Lord by James Montgomery 3 min 97 To Heaven Approached a Sufi Saint by Jalal ad-Din Rumi 2 min 98 Matter and Man Immortal: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night VI by Dr. Edward Young 4 min 99 Life: From 'Festus,' Scene: 'A Country Town' by Philip James Bailey 2 min 100 Heaven by Jeremy Taylor 2 min 101 The Spirit-Land by Jones Very 1 min 102 Heaven by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest 2 min 103 Tell Me, Ye Wingèd Winds by Charles Mackay 3 min 104 Heaven by Isaac Watts 2 min 105 Peace by Henry Vaughan 1 min 106 Star-Mist: From 'Stars' by John Keble 1 min 107 The Ministry of Angels: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto 8 by Edmund Spenser 2 min 108 Saint Agnes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 109 Praise of the Celestial Country by Bernard de Morlaix 10 min 110 The New Jerusalem; or, The Soul's Breathing after the Heavenly Country by Anonymous 12 min 111 Paradise by Frederick William Faber 3 min 112 Inscription over the Gate: From 'The Divine Comedy: Hell,' Canto III by Dante Alighieri 1 min 113 Prayer: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto VI by Dante Alighieri 2 min 114 Prayer of Penitents: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XI by Dante Alighieri 2 min 115 Man's Free-Will: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XVI by Dante Alighieri 2 min 116 Fire of Purification: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XXVII by Dante Alighieri 4 min 117 Sin and Redemption: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto VII by Dante Alighieri 5 min 118 The Triumph of Christ: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XIV by Dante Alighieri 4 min 119 The Saints in Glory: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri 4 min
