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

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Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden 19:58 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning 0:57 Read by Leanne Yau
A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous 2:45 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall 5:17 Read by Tomas Peter
Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1:18 Read by Craig Franklin
Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes 4:23 Read by Sonia
Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous 4:11 Read by Tomas Peter
The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope 3:12 Read by Tomas Peter
Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison 1:32 Read by Leanne Yau
Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither 1:54 Read by Leanne Yau
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 6:09 Read by Jason in Panama
The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett 2:20 Read by Sonia
Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner 1:25 Read by Tomas Peter
God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope 5:22 Read by Jason in Panama
Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper 1:25 Read by Leanne Yau
God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin 6:34 Read by Craig Franklin
God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll 2:19 Read by Leanne Yau
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard 2:23 Read by Tomas Peter
Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson 2:06 Read by Craig Franklin
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts 2:34 Read by Leanne Yau
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther 1:24 Read by Jason in Panama
Delight in God by Francis Quarles 3:42 Read by Jason in Panama
The Will of God by Frederick William Faber 2:42 Read by Leanne Yau
The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason 1:39 Read by Sonia
The Love of God by Eliza Scudder 1:45 Read by Jason in Panama
Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld 3:12 Read by Leanne Yau
Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman 1:32 Read by Craig Franklin
The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier 4:21 Read by Craig Franklin
Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4:54 Read by Leanne Yau
O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks 3:04 Read by Leanne Yau
The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears 2:01 Read by Leanne Yau
Epiphany by Reginald Heber 1:44 Read by Craig Franklin
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton 11:44 Read by Leanne Yau
A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett 2:54 Read by Jason in Panama
Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney 1:37 Read by Sonia
The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout) 4:15 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Cana by James Freeman Clarke 1:23 Read by Sonia
The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 2:13 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene 1:49 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold 1:21 Read by Leanne Yau
Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1:19 Read by Jason in Panama
A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier 1:11 Read by Leanne Yau
Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone 3:22 Read by Craig Franklin
Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston 2:57 Read by Craig Franklin
Litany by Sir Robert Grant 2:08 Read by Sonia
The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench 1:20 Read by Craig Franklin
Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte 5:27 Read by Tomas Peter
The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 3:20 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley 4:43 Read by Tomas Peter
The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble 5:01 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice 3:49 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite 1:51 Read by Tomas Peter
When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant 3:19 Read by Tomas Peter
The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White 1:44 Read by Sonia
Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser 2:21 Read by Craig Franklin
The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker 1:24 Read by Jason in Panama
Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3:30 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
To-morrow by Lope de Vega 1:29 Read by Leanne Yau
I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal 3:06 Read by Tomas Peter
Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts 1:14 Read by Leanne Yau
Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope 8:10 Read by Tomas Peter
Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano 3:41 Read by Sonia
My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier 1:42 Read by Jason in Panama
Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory 3:01 Read by Tomas Peter
Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France 2:17 Read by Sonia
O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard 2:34 Read by Jason in Panama
The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick 4:02 Read by Tomas Peter
Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) 1:11 Read by Leanne Yau
What is Prayer? by James Montgomery 2:02 Read by Leanne Yau
The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett 2:07 Read by Craig Franklin
Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr. 4:11 Read by Tomas Peter
Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer 2:54 Read by Jason in Panama
Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 3:19 Read by Sonia
The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke 5:12 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great 1:14 Read by Craig Franklin
Praise by George Herbert 1:15 Read by Leanne Yau
Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary 1:37 Read by Craig Franklin
Desire by Matthew Arnold 3:24 Read by Tomas Peter
Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall 2:48 Read by Sonia
Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel 2:16 Read by Jason in Panama
The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts 1:13 Read by Sonia
The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen 2:57 Read by Sonia
In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough 1:19 Read by Tomas Peter
From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring 1:26 Read by Craig Franklin
The Higher Good by Theodore Parker 1:14 Read by Leanne Yau
Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts 1:33 Read by Tomas Peter
O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden 1:37 Read by Leanne Yau
Faith by George Santayana 1:16 Read by Sonia
The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe 3:04 Read by Sonia
Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:01 Read by Tomas Peter
My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall 2:45 Read by Craig Franklin
A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles 1:34 Read by Sonia
The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind 3:14 Read by Tomas Peter
The Call by George Herbert 0:59 Read by Leanne Yau
Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell 2:48 Read by Craig Franklin
A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson 2:23 Read by Sonia
Humility by James Montgomery 1:19 Read by Leanne Yau
King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 13:00 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning 1:18 Read by Tomas Peter
The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:30 Read by Sonia
The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith 6:27 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd 1:31 Read by Tomas Peter
Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4:29 Read by Craig Franklin
Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman 1:02 Read by Sonia
Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2:28 Read by Sonia
In the Air by Lucy Larcom 1:35 Read by Sonia
Soggarth Aroon by John Banim 2:20 Read by Sonia
The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell 19:34 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen 4:37 Read by Tomas Peter
What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks 2:07 Read by Sonia
If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson 1:28 Read by Sonia
Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt 1:39 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Love by Charles Francis Richardson 1:22 Read by Sonia
Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik 1:23 Read by Craig Franklin
Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie 2:58 Read by Tomas Peter
The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden 1:31 Read by Tomas Peter
The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame 3:31 Read by Sonia
The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld 1:04 Read by Craig Franklin
Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow 1:12 Read by Leanne Yau
Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder 2:08 Read by Leanne Yau
Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge 2:11 Read by Craig Franklin
The Word by William Walsham How 1:36 Read by Leanne Yau
The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe 3:24 Read by Tomas Peter
The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor 3:16 Read by Leanne Yau
A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik 1:55 Read by Craig Franklin
Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott 2:13 Read by Sonia
The Book of God by Horatius Bonar 2:10 Read by Leanne Yau
The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier 12:09 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3:10 Read by Sonia
Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt 2:43 Read by Craig Franklin
Religion and Doctrine by John Hay 2:56 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning 11:11 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler 1:54 Read by Craig Franklin
The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson 4:21 Read by Tomas Peter
On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 0:53 Read by Sonia
What Was His Creed? by Anonymous 2:33 Read by Sonia
The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols 3:36 Read by Sonia
Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton 1:53 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
My Creed by Alice Cary 1:33 Read by Leanne Yau
Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter 4:38 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) 3:05 Read by Tomas Peter
O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1:34 Read by Craig Franklin
Day Breaks by Charles Mackay 4:33 Read by Tomas Peter
My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick 2:42 Read by Craig Franklin
Peace by George Herbert 2:39 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal 2:50 Read by Sonia
Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer 1:53 Read by Tomas Peter
Devotion by Philip Massinger 0:44 Read by Leanne Yau
The Seaside Well by Anonymous 3:43 Read by Craig Franklin
Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden 1:48 Read by Sonia
The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray 4:53 Read by Sonia
The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:00 Read by Craig Franklin
Life by Jones Very 1:16 Read by Leanne Yau

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(1.5 stars)

hey this looks like an old copy of poetry