THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy Sentiment VII ...

The World's Best Poetry Vol. IV THE HIGHER LIFE RELIGION AND POETRY By WASHINGTON GLADDEN NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS. I. American poem ...

Voyage;" T. Parker: "The Higher Good," "The Way, the Truth, and the Life;" Eliza Scudder: "The Love of God," "Vesper Hymn;" E.C. ...

BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN. The time is not long past when the copulative in that title might have suggested to some minds an antithe ...

The sources from which this collection has been drawn are abundant and varied. The psalmody and hymnology of the church furnish ...

foundation of all the more positive religious thinking of to-day, and which is destined, when once its import has been fully gra ...

The same great testimony to the divine Presence in our lives is borne by many other witnesses in memorable words. Lowell's voice ...

"Thou canst not prove that thou art body alone, Nor canst thou prove that thou art spirit alone, Nor canst thou prove that thou ...

But, after all, Browning's great hymns of faith are those in which he faces the future, like "Prospice," and the prologue of "La ...

FAITH: HOPE: LOVE: SERVICE SABBATH: WORSHIP: CREED SELECTIONS FROM "PARADISE LOST" HUMAN EXPERIENCE DEATH: IMMORTALITY: HEAVEN S ...

RALPH WALDO EMERSON From a photogravure after life-photograph. DINA M. MULOCK CRAIK From a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, L ...

God's in His heaven— All's right with the world. ROBERT BROWNING. * A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. Long pored Sai ...

Sooner, Augustine, sooner far, shall I Confine the ocean in this tiny pit, Than finite minds conceive God's nature infinite!" AN ...

And the myriad idols round me, and the legion of muttering priests, The revels and rites unholy, the dark unspeakable feasts! Wh ...

The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and turn thy ba ...

O Father! dispel from their souls the darkness, and grant them the light Of reason, thy stay, when the whole wide world thou rul ...

Version of the AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH PRAYER-BOOK. [Footnote A: This venerable hymn, familiar as a part of the morning servic ...

Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round: L ...

FROM "THE SPECTATOR." The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, The ...

The meanest lamp now shining there In size and lustre doth exceed The noblest of thy creatures here, And of our friendship hath ...