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
The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John MiltonThe Temptation: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John MiltonThe Fall: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John MiltonIntercession and Redemption: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John MiltonEve's Lament: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John MiltonEve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John MiltonThe Departure from Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XII by John MiltonA Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Gifts of God by George HerbertDuty by Ellen Sturgis HooperOde to Duty by William WordsworthSelf-Inquiry by Isaac WattsThe Three Enemies by Christina Georgina RossettiSaid I Not So? by George HerbertNothing but Leaves by Lucy E. AkermanThe World by Frederick William FaberThe Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Sifting of Peter (A Folk-Song) by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowVanity by AnonymousDifferent Minds by Richard Chenevix TrenchMy Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockThe Ladder of Saint Augustine by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSaint Christopher by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikScorn Not the Least by Robert SouthwellThe Right Must Win by Frederick William FaberThe Cost of Worth: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert HollandThe Laborer by William D. GallagherA True Lent by Robert HerrickFrom 'The Church Porch' by George HerbertBriefs by Richard CrashawJewish Hymn in Babylon by Henry Hart MilmanExample by John KebleSmall Beginnings by Charles MackayThe Rise of Man by John White ChadwickI Would I Were an Excellent Divine by Nicholas BretonThe Pastor's Reverie by Washington GladdenThe Two Rabbis by John Greenleaf WhittierJudge Not by Adelaide Anne ProcterTo the Unco Guid by Robert BurnsStone the Woman, Let the Man Go Free by Anonymous (Frances Marcella Attie O'Brien)In Prison by May Riley SmithConscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence DunbarFound Wanting by Emily DickinsonDallying with Temptation: From the First Part of 'Wallenstein,' Act III. Sc. 4 by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEasy to Drift by Oliver HuckelFrankford's Soliloquy: From 'A Woman Killed with Kindness' by Thomas HeywoodConscience: From Satire XIII by JuvenalThe Foolish Virgins: From 'Idylls of the King: Guinevere' by Alfred, Lord TennysonUp Hill by Christina G. RossettiPer Pacem ad Lucem by Adelaide Anne ProcterOn his Blindness by John MiltonThe Martyrs' Hymn by Martin LutherThe Pilgrimage by Sir Walter RaleighThe Master's Touch by Horatius BonarThe Faithful Angel: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book V by John MiltonLow Spirits by Frederick William FaberI Saw Thee by Ray PalmerLosse in Delayes by Robert SouthwellThe Seed Growing Secretly by Henry VaughanPatience by Paul Hamilton HayneSometime by May Riley SmithFather, Thy Will be Done! by Sarah Flower AdamsThe Prospect by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Lost Pleiad by William GilmorePassing Away by John PierpontLines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster by Sir Walter RaleighMy Ain Countree by Mary Lee DemarestComing by Barbara Miller MacAndrewEuthanasia by Willis Gaylord ClarkThe Last Man by Thomas CampbellWhen by Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)Burial of Moses by Cecil Frances AlexanderThe Resignation by Thomas Chatterton'Only Waiting' by Frances Laughton MaceHopefully Waiting by Anson D.F. RandolphSit Down, Sad Soul by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)It Kindles All My Soul by Casimir of PolandEpilogue by Robert BrowningCrossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander PopeOde: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William WordsworthSoliloquy: On Immortality (from 'Cato,' Act V. Sc. 1) by Joseph AddisonEdwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria by AnonymousThe Undiscovered Country by Edmund Clarence StedmanSong of the Silent Land by Johann Gaudenz von SalisThe Other World by Harriet Beecher StoweHeaven by Emily DickinsonThoughts of Heaven by Robert NicollNearer Home by Phoebe CaryMeeting Above by William LeggettMy Days among the Dead by Robert SoutheyThe Future Life by William Cullen BryantHeaven by AnonymousThe Two Worlds by Mortimer CollinsThe Answer by AnonymousForever with the Lord by James MontgomeryTo Heaven Approached a Sufi Saint by Jalal ad-Din RumiMatter and Man Immortal: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night VI by Dr. Edward YoungLife: From 'Festus,' Scene: 'A Country Town' by Philip James BaileyHeaven by Jeremy TaylorThe Spirit-Land by Jones VeryHeaven by Nancy Amelia Woodbury PriestTell Me, Ye Wingèd Winds by Charles MackayHeaven by Isaac WattsPeace by Henry VaughanStar-Mist: From 'Stars' by John KebleThe Ministry of Angels: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto 8 by Edmund SpenserSaint Agnes by Alfred, Lord TennysonPraise of the Celestial Country by Bernard de MorlaixThe New Jerusalem; or, The Soul's Breathing after the Heavenly Country by AnonymousParadise by Frederick William FaberInscription over the Gate: From 'The Divine Comedy: Hell,' Canto III by Dante AlighieriPrayer: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto VI by Dante AlighieriPrayer of Penitents: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XI by Dante AlighieriMan's Free-Will: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XVI by Dante AlighieriFire of Purification: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XXVII by Dante AlighieriSin and Redemption: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto VII by Dante AlighieriThe Triumph of Christ: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XIV by Dante AlighieriThe Saints in Glory: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri
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