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

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Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama and Craig Franklin · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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