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The 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

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1805), religion (734), Christianity (372), love (331), faith (114), Jesus (92), God (78), prayer (68), Christ (64), hope (33) ... [Show full list]

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden	Group	00:19:58
Play 01	Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning	Leanne Yau	00:00:57
Play 02	A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous	Group	00:02:45
Play 03	Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall	Tomas Peter	00:05:17
Play 04	Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Craig Franklin	00:01:18
Play 05	Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes	Sonia	00:04:23
Play 06	Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:04:11
Play 07	The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope	Tomas Peter	00:03:12
Play 08	Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison	Leanne Yau	00:01:32
Play 09	Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither	Leanne Yau	00:01:54
Play 10	Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jason in Panama	00:06:09
Play 11	The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett	Sonia	00:02:20
Play 12	Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner	Tomas Peter	00:01:25
Play 13	God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope	Jason in Panama	00:05:22
Play 14	Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper	Leanne Yau	00:01:25
Play 15	God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin	Craig Franklin	00:06:34
Play 16	God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll	Leanne Yau	00:02:19
Play 17	Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard	Tomas Peter	00:02:23
Play 18	Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Craig Franklin	00:02:06
Play 19	Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts	Leanne Yau	00:02:34
Play 20	A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther	Jason in Panama	00:01:24
Play 21	Delight in God by Francis Quarles	Jason in Panama	00:03:42
Play 22	The Will of God by Frederick William Faber	Leanne Yau	00:02:42
Play 23	The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason	Sonia	00:01:39
Play 24	The Love of God by Eliza Scudder	Jason in Panama	00:01:45
Play 25	Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld	Leanne Yau	00:03:12
Play 26	Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman	Craig Franklin	00:01:32
Play 27	The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier	Craig Franklin	00:04:21
Play 28	Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Leanne Yau	00:04:54
Play 29	O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks	Leanne Yau	00:03:04
Play 30	The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears	Leanne Yau	00:02:01
Play 31	Epiphany by Reginald Heber	Craig Franklin	00:01:44
Play 32	On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton	Leanne Yau	00:11:44
Play 33	A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett	Jason in Panama	00:02:54
Play 34	Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney	Sonia	00:01:37
Play 35	The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)	Group	00:04:15
Play 36	Cana by James Freeman Clarke	Sonia	00:01:23
Play 37	The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane	Group	00:02:13
Play 38	De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene	Group	00:01:49
Play 39	The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold	Leanne Yau Craig Franklin	00:01:21
Play 40	Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Jason in Panama	00:01:19
Play 41	A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier	Leanne Yau	00:01:11
Play 42	Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone	Craig Franklin	00:03:22
Play 43	Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston	Craig Franklin	00:02:57
Play 44	Litany by Sir Robert Grant	Sonia	00:02:08
Play 45	The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench	Craig Franklin	00:01:20
Play 46	Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte	Tomas Peter	00:05:27
Play 47	The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Group	00:03:20
Play 48	Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley	Tomas Peter	00:04:43
Play 49	The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble	Group	00:05:01
Play 50	'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice	Group	00:03:49
Play 51	Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite	Tomas Peter Craig Franklin	00:01:51
Play 52	When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant	Tomas Peter	00:03:19
Play 53	The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White	Sonia	00:01:44
Play 54	Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser	Craig Franklin	00:02:21
Play 55	The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker	Jason in Panama	00:01:24
Play 56	Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe	Group	00:03:30
Play 57	To-morrow by Lope de Vega	Leanne Yau Jason in Panama	00:01:29
Play 58	I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal	Tomas Peter	00:03:06
Play 59	Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts	Leanne Yau	00:01:14
Play 60	Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope	Tomas Peter	00:08:10
Play 61	Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano	Sonia	00:03:41
Play 62	My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier	Jason in Panama	00:01:42
Play 63	Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory	Tomas Peter	00:03:01
Play 64	Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France	Sonia	00:02:17
Play 65	O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard	Jason in Panama	00:02:34
Play 66	The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick	Tomas Peter	00:04:02
Play 67	Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)	Leanne Yau	00:01:11
Play 68	What is Prayer? by James Montgomery	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:02:02
Play 69	The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett	Craig Franklin	00:02:07
Play 70	Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.	Tomas Peter	00:04:11
Play 71	Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer	Jason in Panama	00:02:54
Play 72	Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:03:19
Play 73	The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke	Group	00:05:12
Play 74	Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great	Craig Franklin	00:01:14
Play 75	Praise by George Herbert	Leanne Yau	00:01:15
Play 76	Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary	Craig Franklin	00:01:37
Play 77	Desire by Matthew Arnold	Tomas Peter	00:03:24
Play 78	Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall	Sonia	00:02:48
Play 79	Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel	Jason in Panama	00:02:16
Play 80	The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts	Sonia	00:01:13
Play 81	The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen	Sonia	00:02:57
Play 82	In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough	Tomas Peter	00:01:19
Play 83	From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring	Craig Franklin	00:01:26
Play 84	The Higher Good by Theodore Parker	Leanne Yau	00:01:14
Play 85	Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts	Tomas Peter	00:01:33
Play 86	O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden	Leanne Yau	00:01:37
Play 87	Faith by George Santayana	Sonia	00:01:16
Play 88	The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe	Sonia	00:03:04
Play 89	Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Tomas Peter	00:02:01
Play 90	My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall	Craig Franklin	00:02:45
Play 91	A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles	Sonia	00:01:34
Play 92	The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind	Tomas Peter	00:03:14
Play 93	The Call by George Herbert	Leanne Yau	00:00:59
Play 94	Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell	Craig Franklin	00:02:48
Play 95	A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson	Sonia	00:02:23
Play 96	Humility by James Montgomery	Leanne Yau	00:01:19
Play 97	King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Group	00:13:00
Play 98	Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning	Tomas Peter	00:01:18
Play 99	The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:02:30
Play 100	The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith	Group	00:06:27
Play 101	Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd	Tomas Peter	00:01:31
Play 102	Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Craig Franklin	00:04:29
Play 103	Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman	Sonia	00:01:02
Play 104	Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Sonia	00:02:28
Play 105	In the Air by Lucy Larcom	Sonia	00:01:35
Play 106	Soggarth Aroon by John Banim	Sonia	00:02:20
Play 107	The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell	Group	00:19:34
Play 108	The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen	Tomas Peter	00:04:37
Play 109	What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks	Sonia	00:02:07
Play 110	If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson	Sonia	00:01:28
Play 111	Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt	Group	00:01:39
Play 112	Love by Charles Francis Richardson	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:01:22
Play 113	Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik	Craig Franklin	00:01:23
Play 114	Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie	Tomas Peter	00:02:58
Play 115	The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden	Tomas Peter	00:01:31
Play 116	The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame	Sonia	00:03:31
Play 117	The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld	Craig Franklin	00:01:04
Play 118	Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow	Leanne Yau	00:01:12
Play 119	Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder	Leanne Yau	00:02:08
Play 120	Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge	Craig Franklin	00:02:11
Play 121	The Word by William Walsham How	Leanne Yau	00:01:36
Play 122	The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe	Tomas Peter	00:03:24
Play 123	The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:03:16
Play 124	A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik	Craig Franklin	00:01:55
Play 125	Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:02:13
Play 126	The Book of God by Horatius Bonar	Leanne Yau	00:02:10
Play 127	The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier	Group	00:12:09
Play 128	The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Sonia	00:03:10
Play 129	Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt	Craig Franklin	00:02:43
Play 130	Religion and Doctrine by John Hay	Group	00:02:56
Play 131	Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning	Group	00:11:11
Play 132	The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler	Craig Franklin	00:01:54
Play 133	The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Tomas Peter	00:04:21
Play 134	On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:00:53
Play 135	What Was His Creed? by Anonymous	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:02:33
Play 136	The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols	Sonia	00:03:36
Play 137	Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton	Group	00:01:53
Play 138	My Creed by Alice Cary	Leanne Yau	00:01:33
Play 139	Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter	Group	00:04:38
Play 140	O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)	Tomas Peter	00:03:05
Play 141	O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Craig Franklin	00:01:34
Play 142	Day Breaks by Charles Mackay	Tomas Peter Craig Franklin	00:04:33
Play 143	My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick	Craig Franklin	00:02:42
Play 144	Peace by George Herbert	Group	00:02:39
Play 145	Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:02:50
Play 146	Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer	Tomas Peter	00:01:53
Play 147	Devotion by Philip Massinger	Leanne Yau	00:00:44
Play 148	The Seaside Well by Anonymous	Craig Franklin	00:03:43
Play 149	Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden	Sonia	00:01:48
Play 150	The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray	Sonia	00:04:53
Play 151	The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Craig Franklin	00:02:00
Play 152	Life by Jones Very	Leanne Yau	00:01:16

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