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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)

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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

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1797), religion (733), Christianity (369), death (126), faith (114), Jesus (91), God (77), prayer (68), Christ (64), judaism (30) ... [Show full list]

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton	Craig Franklin	00:02:10
Play 02	The Temptation: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton	Sonia Tomas Peter	00:11:13
Play 03	The Fall: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton	Leanne Yau Craig Franklin	00:04:06
Play 04	Intercession and Redemption: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton	Group	00:04:53
Play 05	Eve's Lament: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton	Sonia	00:01:45
Play 06	Eve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton	Leanne Yau	00:01:14
Play 07	The Departure from Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XII by John Milton	Craig Franklin	00:01:28
Play 08	A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Craig Franklin	00:02:18
Play 09	The Gifts of God by George Herbert	Leanne Yau Craig Franklin	00:01:39
Play 10	Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper	Leanne Yau	00:00:47
Play 11	Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth	Sonia	00:03:40
Play 12	Self-Inquiry by Isaac Watts	Leanne Yau	00:01:05
Play 13	The Three Enemies by Christina Georgina Rossetti	Group	00:02:42
Play 14	Said I Not So? by George Herbert	Leanne Yau Jason in Panama	00:01:42
Play 15	Nothing but Leaves by Lucy E. Akerman	Tomas Peter	00:01:45
Play 16	The World by Frederick William Faber	Jason in Panama	00:03:14
Play 17	The Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Group	00:07:03
Play 18	The Sifting of Peter (A Folk-Song) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Tomas Peter	00:02:26
Play 19	Vanity by Anonymous	Leanne Yau	00:01:25
Play 20	Different Minds by Richard Chenevix Trench	Leanne Yau	00:01:09
Play 21	My Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	Craig Franklin	00:02:01
Play 22	The Ladder of Saint Augustine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Craig Franklin	00:03:05
Play 23	Saint Christopher by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	Group	00:02:46
Play 24	Scorn Not the Least by Robert Southwell	Craig Franklin	00:02:05
Play 25	The Right Must Win by Frederick William Faber	Jason in Panama	00:02:03
Play 26	The Cost of Worth: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland	Jason in Panama	00:02:01
Play 27	The Laborer by William D. Gallagher	Tomas Peter	00:02:41
Play 28	A True Lent by Robert Herrick	Leanne Yau	00:01:09
Play 29	From 'The Church Porch' by George Herbert	Sonia	00:03:17
Play 30	Briefs by Richard Crashaw	Tomas Peter	00:01:14
Play 31	Jewish Hymn in Babylon by Henry Hart Milman	Jason in Panama	00:03:42
Play 32	Example by John Keble	Leanne Yau	00:01:10
Play 33	Small Beginnings by Charles Mackay	Sonia	00:02:36
Play 34	The Rise of Man by John White Chadwick	Sonia	00:01:18
Play 35	I Would I Were an Excellent Divine by Nicholas Breton	Craig Franklin	00:02:24
Play 36	The Pastor's Reverie by Washington Gladden	Jason in Panama Craig Franklin	00:04:37
Play 37	The Two Rabbis by John Greenleaf Whittier	Group	00:05:40
Play 38	Judge Not by Adelaide Anne Procter	Leanne Yau	00:01:38
Play 39	To the Unco Guid by Robert Burns	Craig Franklin	00:04:19
Play 40	Stone the Woman, Let the Man Go Free by Anonymous (Frances Marcella Attie O'Brien)	Sonia	00:02:14
Play 41	In Prison by May Riley Smith	Sonia	00:02:58
Play 42	Conscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunbar	Leanne Yau Jason in Panama	00:01:05
Play 43	Found Wanting by Emily Dickinson	Leanne Yau	00:00:44
Play 44	Dallying with Temptation: From the First Part of 'Wallenstein,' Act III. Sc. 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Tomas Peter	00:02:13
Play 45	Easy to Drift by Oliver Huckel	Leanne Yau	00:01:33
Play 46	Frankford's Soliloquy: From 'A Woman Killed with Kindness' by Thomas Heywood	Jason in Panama	00:01:06
Play 47	Conscience: From Satire XIII by Juvenal	Leanne Yau Craig Franklin	00:04:08
Play 48	The Foolish Virgins: From 'Idylls of the King: Guinevere' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Group	00:02:12
Play 49	Up Hill by Christina G. Rossetti	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:01:29
Play 50	Per Pacem ad Lucem by Adelaide Anne Procter	Sonia	00:01:30
Play 51	On his Blindness by John Milton	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:01:18
Play 52	The Martyrs' Hymn by Martin Luther	Sonia	00:01:06
Play 53	The Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh	Jason in Panama	00:03:42
Play 54	The Master's Touch by Horatius Bonar	Leanne Yau	00:01:17
Play 55	The Faithful Angel: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book V by John Milton	Leanne Yau	00:01:15
Play 56	Low Spirits by Frederick William Faber	Tomas Peter	00:02:55
Play 57	I Saw Thee by Ray Palmer	Jason in Panama	00:02:08
Play 58	Losse in Delayes by Robert Southwell	Sonia	00:02:36
Play 59	The Seed Growing Secretly by Henry Vaughan	Leanne Yau	00:01:08
Play 60	Patience by Paul Hamilton Hayne	Craig Franklin	00:02:01
Play 61	Sometime by May Riley Smith	Craig Franklin	00:03:06
Play 62	Father, Thy Will be Done! by Sarah Flower Adams	Jason in Panama	00:01:33
Play 63	The Prospect by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Tomas Peter	00:01:19
Play 64	The Lost Pleiad by William Gilmore	Craig Franklin	00:03:53
Play 65	Passing Away by John Pierpont	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:04:22
Play 66	Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster by Sir Walter Raleigh	Leanne Yau	00:01:02
Play 67	My Ain Countree by Mary Lee Demarest	Tomas Peter	00:02:47
Play 68	Coming by Barbara Miller MacAndrew	Group	00:05:46
Play 69	Euthanasia by Willis Gaylord Clark	Tomas Peter	00:02:09
Play 70	The Last Man by Thomas Campbell	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:04:20
Play 71	When by Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)	Sonia	00:02:57
Play 72	Burial of Moses by Cecil Frances Alexander	Jason in Panama	00:04:26
Play 73	The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton	Tomas Peter	00:02:13
Play 74	'Only Waiting' by Frances Laughton Mace	Jason in Panama	00:02:00
Play 75	Hopefully Waiting by Anson D.F. Randolph	Tomas Peter	00:03:10
Play 76	Sit Down, Sad Soul by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)	Leanne Yau	00:01:28
Play 77	It Kindles All My Soul by Casimir of Poland	Tomas Peter	00:01:34
Play 78	Epilogue by Robert Browning	Sonia	00:01:37
Play 79	Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Leanne Yau	00:01:14
Play 80	The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope	Sonia	00:01:29
Play 81	Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth	Group	00:11:29
Play 82	Soliloquy: On Immortality (from 'Cato,' Act V. Sc. 1) by Joseph Addison	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:03:05
Play 83	Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria by Anonymous	Group	00:02:52
Play 84	The Undiscovered Country by Edmund Clarence Stedman	Jason in Panama	00:01:31
Play 85	Song of the Silent Land by Johann Gaudenz von Salis	Jason in Panama	00:01:32
Play 86	The Other World by Harriet Beecher Stowe	Craig Franklin	00:02:33
Play 87	Heaven by Emily Dickinson	Leanne Yau	00:00:48
Play 88	Thoughts of Heaven by Robert Nicoll	Tomas Peter	00:03:29
Play 89	Nearer Home by Phoebe Cary	Jason in Panama	00:01:36
Play 90	Meeting Above by William Leggett	Leanne Yau	00:01:55
Play 91	My Days among the Dead by Robert Southey	Craig Franklin	00:01:43
Play 92	The Future Life by William Cullen Bryant	Jason in Panama	00:02:39
Play 93	Heaven by Anonymous	Craig Franklin	00:02:33
Play 94	The Two Worlds by Mortimer Collins	Jason in Panama	00:03:20
Play 95	The Answer by Anonymous	Sonia	00:02:01
Play 96	Forever with the Lord by James Montgomery	Jason in Panama	00:02:46
Play 97	To Heaven Approached a Sufi Saint by Jalal ad-Din Rumi	Group	00:01:44
Play 98	Matter and Man Immortal: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night VI by Dr. Edward Young	Craig Franklin	00:03:37
Play 99	Life: From 'Festus,' Scene: 'A Country Town' by Philip James Bailey	Group	00:02:27
Play 100	Heaven by Jeremy Taylor	Jason in Panama	00:01:49
Play 101	The Spirit-Land by Jones Very	Sonia	00:01:19
Play 102	Heaven by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest	Tomas Peter	00:01:56
Play 103	Tell Me, Ye Wingèd Winds by Charles Mackay	Group	00:02:46
Play 104	Heaven by Isaac Watts	Sonia	00:01:37
Play 105	Peace by Henry Vaughan	Tomas Peter	00:01:22
Play 106	Star-Mist: From 'Stars' by John Keble	Leanne Yau	00:01:20
Play 107	The Ministry of Angels: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto 8 by Edmund Spenser	Tomas Peter	00:01:43
Play 108	Saint Agnes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Sonia	00:02:06
Play 109	Praise of the Celestial Country by Bernard de Morlaix	Sonia Tomas Peter	00:10:27
Play 110	The New Jerusalem; or, The Soul's Breathing after the Heavenly Country by Anonymous	Sonia Tomas Peter	00:12:00
Play 111	Paradise by Frederick William Faber	Tomas Peter	00:03:24
Play 112	Inscription over the Gate: From 'The Divine Comedy: Hell,' Canto III by Dante Alighieri	Craig Franklin	00:01:20
Play 113	Prayer: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto VI by Dante Alighieri	Jason in Panama Craig Franklin	00:02:18
Play 114	Prayer of Penitents: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XI by Dante Alighieri	Jason in Panama	00:02:12
Play 115	Man's Free-Will: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XVI by Dante Alighieri	Craig Franklin	00:01:52
Play 116	Fire of Purification: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XXVII by Dante Alighieri	Group	00:04:23
Play 117	Sin and Redemption: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto VII by Dante Alighieri	Tomas Peter	00:04:35
Play 118	The Triumph of Christ: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XIV by Dante Alighieri	Sonia	00:04:07
Play 119	The Saints in Glory: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri	Craig Franklin	00:04:10

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