- 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).
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- Chapters
- Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden
- Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
- A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous
- Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
- Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes
- Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous
- The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope
- Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison
- Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither
- Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett
- Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner
- God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope
- Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper
- God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin
- God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll
- Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard
- Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther
- Delight in God by Francis Quarles
- The Will of God by Frederick William Faber
- The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason
- The Love of God by Eliza Scudder
- Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
- Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman
- The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks
- The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears
- Epiphany by Reginald Heber
- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
- A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett
- Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney
- The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)
- Cana by James Freeman Clarke
- The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
- De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
- The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold
- Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier
- Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone
- Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston
- Litany by Sir Robert Grant
- The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench
- Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte
- The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley
- The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble
- 'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice
- Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite
- When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant
- The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White
- Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser
- The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker
- Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- To-morrow by Lope de Vega
- I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal
- Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts
- Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope
- Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano
- My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier
- Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory
- Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France
- O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard
- The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick
- Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
- What is Prayer? by James Montgomery
- The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett
- Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.
- Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer
- Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
- The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke
- Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great
- Praise by George Herbert
- Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary
- Desire by Matthew Arnold
- Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall
- Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel
- The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts
- The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen
- In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough
- From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring
- The Higher Good by Theodore Parker
- Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts
- O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden
- Faith by George Santayana
- The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe
- Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall
- A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles
- The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind
- The Call by George Herbert
- Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell
- A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson
- Humility by James Montgomery
- King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning
- The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith
- Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
- Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman
- Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- In the Air by Lucy Larcom
- Soggarth Aroon by John Banim
- The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
- The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen
- What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks
- If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson
- Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
- Love by Charles Francis Richardson
- Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
- Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie
- The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden
- The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame
- The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
- Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow
- Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder
- Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge
- The Word by William Walsham How
- The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
- The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor
- A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik
- Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott
- The Book of God by Horatius Bonar
- The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt
- Religion and Doctrine by John Hay
- Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning
- The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler
- The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- What Was His Creed? by Anonymous
- The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols
- Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton
- My Creed by Alice Cary
- Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
- O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)
- O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Day Breaks by Charles Mackay
- My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick
- Peace by George Herbert
- Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal
- Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer
- Devotion by Philip Massinger
- The Seaside Well by Anonymous
- Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden
- The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Life by Jones Very
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