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

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Poetry, Romance, Religion · English

Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin

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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  1. 1 000 - Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden 19:58
  2. 2 001 - Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning 0:57
  3. 3 002 - A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous 2:45
  4. 4 003 - Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall 5:17
  5. 5 004 - Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1:17
  6. 6 005 - Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes 4:23
  7. 7 006 - Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous 4:11
  8. 8 007 - The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope 3:12
  9. 9 008 - Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison 1:32
  10. 10 009 - Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither 1:54
  11. 11 010 - Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 6:09
  12. 12 011 - The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett 2:20
  13. 13 012 - Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner 1:25
  14. 14 013 - God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope 5:22
  15. 15 014 - Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper 1:25
  16. 16 015 - God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin 6:34
  17. 17 016 - God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll 2:19
  18. 18 017 - Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard 2:23
  19. 19 018 - Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson 2:06
  20. 20 019 - Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts 2:34
  21. 21 020 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther 1:24
  22. 22 021 - Delight in God by Francis Quarles 3:42
  23. 23 022 - The Will of God by Frederick William Faber 2:42
  24. 24 023 - The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason 1:39
  25. 25 024 - The Love of God by Eliza Scudder 1:45
  26. 26 025 - Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld 3:12
  27. 27 026 - Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman 1:32
  28. 28 027 - The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier 4:21
  29. 29 028 - Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4:54
  30. 30 029 - O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks 3:04
  31. 31 030 - The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears 2:01
  32. 32 031 - Epiphany by Reginald Heber 1:44
  33. 33 032 - On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton 11:44
  34. 34 033 - A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett 2:54
  35. 35 034 - Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney 1:37
  36. 36 035 - The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout) 4:15
  37. 37 036 - Cana by James Freeman Clarke 1:23
  38. 38 037 - The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 2:13
  39. 39 038 - De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene 1:49
  40. 40 039 - The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold 1:20
  41. 41 040 - Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1:19
  42. 42 041 - A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier 1:11
  43. 43 042 - Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone 3:22
  44. 44 043 - Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston 2:57
  45. 45 044 - Litany by Sir Robert Grant 2:08
  46. 46 045 - The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench 1:20
  47. 47 046 - Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte 5:27
  48. 48 047 - The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 3:20
  49. 49 048 - Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley 4:43
  50. 50 049 - The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble 5:01
  51. 51 050 - 'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice 3:49
  52. 52 051 - Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite 1:51
  53. 53 052 - When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant 3:19
  54. 54 053 - The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White 1:44
  55. 55 054 - Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser 2:21
  56. 56 055 - The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker 1:24
  57. 57 056 - Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3:30
  58. 58 057 - To-morrow by Lope de Vega 1:29
  59. 59 058 - I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal 3:06
  60. 60 059 - Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts 1:14
  61. 61 060 - Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope 8:10
  62. 62 061 - Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano 3:41
  63. 63 062 - My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier 1:42
  64. 64 063 - Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory 3:01
  65. 65 064 - Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France 2:17
  66. 66 065 - O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard 2:34
  67. 67 066 - The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick 4:02
  68. 68 067 - Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) 1:11
  69. 69 068 - What is Prayer? by James Montgomery 2:02
  70. 70 069 - The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett 2:07
  71. 71 070 - Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr. 4:11
  72. 72 071 - Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer 2:54
  73. 73 072 - Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 3:19
  74. 74 073 - The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke 5:12
  75. 75 074 - Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great 1:14
  76. 76 075 - Praise by George Herbert 1:15
  77. 77 076 - Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary 1:37
  78. 78 077 - Desire by Matthew Arnold 3:24
  79. 79 078 - Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall 2:48
  80. 80 079 - Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel 2:16
  81. 81 080 - The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts 1:13
  82. 82 081 - The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen 2:57
  83. 83 082 - In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough 1:19
  84. 84 083 - From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring 1:26
  85. 85 084 - The Higher Good by Theodore Parker 1:14
  86. 86 085 - Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts 1:33
  87. 87 086 - O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden 1:37
  88. 88 087 - Faith by George Santayana 1:16
  89. 89 088 - The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe 3:04
  90. 90 089 - Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:01
  91. 91 090 - My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall 2:45
  92. 92 091 - A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles 1:33
  93. 93 092 - The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind 3:14
  94. 94 093 - The Call by George Herbert 0:59
  95. 95 094 - Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell 2:48
  96. 96 095 - A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson 2:23
  97. 97 096 - Humility by James Montgomery 1:19
  98. 98 097 - King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 13:00
  99. 99 098 - Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning 1:18
  100. 100 099 - The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:30
  101. 101 100 - The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith 6:27
  102. 102 101 - Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd 1:31
  103. 103 102 - Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4:29
  104. 104 103 - Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman 1:02
  105. 105 104 - Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2:28
  106. 106 105 - In the Air by Lucy Larcom 1:35
  107. 107 106 - Soggarth Aroon by John Banim 2:20
  108. 108 107 - The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell 19:34
  109. 109 108 - The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen 4:37
  110. 110 109 - What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks 2:07
  111. 111 110 - If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson 1:28
  112. 112 111 - Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt 1:39
  113. 113 112 - Love by Charles Francis Richardson 1:22
  114. 114 113 - Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik 1:23
  115. 115 114 - Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie 2:58
  116. 116 115 - The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden 1:31
  117. 117 116 - The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame 3:31
  118. 118 117 - The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld 1:04
  119. 119 118 - Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow 1:12
  120. 120 119 - Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder 2:08
  121. 121 120 - Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge 2:11
  122. 122 121 - The Word by William Walsham How 1:36
  123. 123 122 - The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe 3:24
  124. 124 123 - The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor 3:16
  125. 125 124 - A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik 1:55
  126. 126 125 - Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott 2:13
  127. 127 126 - The Book of God by Horatius Bonar 2:10
  128. 128 127 - The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier 12:09
  129. 129 128 - The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3:10
  130. 130 129 - Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt 2:43
  131. 131 130 - Religion and Doctrine by John Hay 2:56
  132. 132 131 - Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning 11:11
  133. 133 132 - The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler 1:54
  134. 134 133 - The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson 4:21
  135. 135 134 - On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 0:53
  136. 136 135 - What Was His Creed? by Anonymous 2:33
  137. 137 136 - The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols 3:35
  138. 138 137 - Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton 1:53
  139. 139 138 - My Creed by Alice Cary 1:33
  140. 140 139 - Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter 4:38
  141. 141 140 - O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) 3:05
  142. 142 141 - O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1:34
  143. 143 142 - Day Breaks by Charles Mackay 4:33
  144. 144 143 - My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick 2:42
  145. 145 144 - Peace by George Herbert 2:39
  146. 146 145 - Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal 2:50
  147. 147 146 - Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer 1:53
  148. 148 147 - Devotion by Philip Massinger 0:44
  149. 149 148 - The Seaside Well by Anonymous 3:43
  150. 150 149 - Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden 1:48
  151. 151 150 - The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray 4:53
  152. 152 151 - The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:00
  153. 153 152 - Life by Jones Very 1:16

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