The World's Best Poetry
Vol. IV
THE HIGHER LIFE
RELIGION AND POETRY
By
WASHINGTON GLADDEN
NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS.
I.
American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyright are used by the
courteous permission of the owners,—either the publishers named in the following list or
the authors or their representatives in the subsequent one,—who reserve all their rights.
So far as practicable, permission has been secured also for poems out of copyright.
PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.
Messrs. D. APPLETON & CO., New York.—W.G. Bryant: "The Future
Life."
The ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, Cincinnati.—W.D. Gallagher: "The
Laborer."
Messrs. T.Y. CROWELL & CO., New York.—S.K. Bolton: "Her Creed."
Messrs. E.P. DUTTON & CO., New York.—Ph. Brooks: "O Little Town of
Bethlehem;" E. Sears: "The Angel's Song."
Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston.—Alice Cary: "My Creed;"
Phoebe Cary: "Nearer Home;" J.F. Clarke: "The Caliph and Satan,"
"Cana;" R.W. Emerson: "Brahma," "Good-bye," "The Problem;" Louise
I. Guiney: "Tryste Noël;" J. Hay: "Religion and Doctrine;" C.W.
Holmes: "The Living Temple;" H.W. Longfellow: "King Robert of
Sicily," "Ladder of St. Augustine," "Psalm of Life," "Santa Filomena,"
"Sifting of Peter," "Song of the Silent Land," "To-morrow;" S.
Longfellow: "Vesper Hymn;" J.R. Lowell: "Vision of Sir Launfal;"
Frances P.L. Mace: "Only Waiting;" Caroline A.B. Mason: "The