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

001 - Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning

002 - A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous

003 - Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

004 - Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson

005 - Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes

006 - Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous

007 - The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope

008 - Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison

009 - Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither

010 - Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

011 - The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett

012 - Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner

013 - God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope

014 - Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper

015 - God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin

016 - God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll

017 - Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard

018 - Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson

019 - Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts

020 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther

021 - Delight in God by Francis Quarles

022 - The Will of God by Frederick William Faber

023 - The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason

024 - The Love of God by Eliza Scudder

025 - Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld

026 - Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman

027 - The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier

028 - Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

029 - O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks

030 - The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears

031 - Epiphany by Reginald Heber

032 - On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton

033 - A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett

034 - Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney

035 - The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)

036 - Cana by James Freeman Clarke

037 - The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane

038 - De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene

039 - The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold

040 - Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

041 - A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier

042 - Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone

043 - Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston

044 - Litany by Sir Robert Grant

045 - The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench

046 - Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte

047 - The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

048 - Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley

049 - The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble

050 - 'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice

051 - Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite

052 - When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant

053 - The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White

054 - Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser

055 - The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker

056 - Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe

057 - To-morrow by Lope de Vega

058 - I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal

059 - Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts

060 - Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope

061 - Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano

062 - My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier

063 - Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory

064 - Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France

065 - O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard

066 - The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick

067 - Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)

068 - What is Prayer? by James Montgomery

069 - The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett

070 - Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.

071 - Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer

072 - Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

073 - The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) by James Freeman Clarke

074 - Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great

075 - Praise by George Herbert

076 - Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary

077 - Desire by Matthew Arnold

078 - Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall

079 - Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel

080 - The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts

081 - The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen

082 - In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough

083 - From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring

084 - The Higher Good by Theodore Parker

085 - Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts

086 - O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden

087 - Faith by George Santayana

088 - The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe

089 - Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

090 - My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall

091 - A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles

092 - The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind

093 - The Call by George Herbert

094 - Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell

095 - A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson

096 - Humility by James Montgomery

097 - King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

098 - Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning

099 - The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier

100 - The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith

101 - Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

102 - Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

103 - Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman

104 - Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

105 - In the Air by Lucy Larcom

106 - Soggarth Aroon by John Banim

107 - The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell

108 - The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen

109 - What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks

110 - If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson

111 - Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

112 - Love by Charles Francis Richardson

113 - Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik

114 - Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie

115 - The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden

116 - The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame

117 - The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld

118 - Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow

119 - Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder

120 - Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge

121 - The Word by William Walsham How

122 - The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe

123 - The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor

124 - A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik

125 - Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott

126 - The Book of God by Horatius Bonar

127 - The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier

128 - The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes

129 - Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt

130 - Religion and Doctrine by John Hay

131 - Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning

132 - The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler

133 - The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

134 - On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

135 - What Was His Creed? by Anonymous

136 - The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols

137 - Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton

138 - My Creed by Alice Cary

139 - Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter

140 - O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

141 - O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

142 - Day Breaks by Charles Mackay

143 - My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by Robert Herrick

144 - Peace by George Herbert

145 - Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal

146 - Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer

147 - Devotion by Philip Massinger

148 - The Seaside Well by Anonymous

149 - Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden

150 - The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray

151 - The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

152 - Life by Jones Very