Innehållsförteckning
Anonymous (c. 1539)
To the Book
The Lamentation of a Sinner
Anonymous (c. 1558)
“God be in my head”
George Gascoigne (l525?–l577)
De Profundis
Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust”
Robert Southwell (1560–1595)
A Preparative to Prayer
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621)
Psalm 139
Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
The Song of Jonah in the Whale’s Belly
A Song of the Faithful
Another Song of the Faithful for the Mercies of God
John Day (1566–1628)
Man’s Natural Infirmity
John Donne (1572–1631)
“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”
“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”
Ben Jonson (1574–1637)
Hymn to God the Father
A Prayer
To the Holy Trinity
George Sandys (1577–1643)
Psalm 42
Psalm 66
George Wither (1588–1667)
Divine Support
Well-Doing
Henry King (1591–1669)
A Penitential Hymne
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Neutrality Loathsome
To God, on His Sicknesse
Litany to the Holy Spirit
Francis Quarles (1592–1664)
“Why dost thou shade thy lovely face?”
Delight in God Only
Man’s Ingratitude
A Soliloquy
Trial Before Reward
On Man’s Two Enemies
George Herbert (1593–1632)
Denial
The Flower
Faith
The Temper
The Holy Scriptures
The Collar
Christopher Harvey (1597–1663)
Confusion
Comfort in Extremity
Thomas Heywood (d. 1641)
Search after God
Thomas Washbourne (1606–1687)
Casting All Your Care upon God, for He Careth for You
John Milton (1608–1687)
On His Blindness
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
Reason: The Use of It in Divine Matters
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
On a Drop of Dew
Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
The Pursuit
“They are all gone into the world of light!”
Cock-crowing
The Water-fall
John Bunyan (1628–1688)
The Pilgrim
Thomas Traherne (1636?–1674)
Poverty
Insatiableness
John Norris (1637–1711)
The Aspiration
The Resignation
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
Some Reflections . . . the 73rd Psalm
Thomas Shepherd (1665–1739) and John Mason (d. 1694)
For Communion with God
John Mason (d. 1694)
A Song of Praise for the Morning
A Song of Praise for Grace
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
Faith
Taste
Hymn to the Supreme Being
John Newton (1725–1807)
The Name of Jesus
Looking at the Cross
William Cowper (1731–1800)
Walking with God
Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
The Contrite Heart
Ephraim Repenting
Peace After a Storm
Joy and Peace in Believing
Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)
A Prayer: Living and Dying
William Blake (1757–1827)
“Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau”
The Little Boy Lost
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Not seldom, clad in radiant vest”
Resolution and Independence
John Clare (1793–1864)
The Poet’s Swan-Song
John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
The Pillar of the Cloud
James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849)
St. Patrick’s Hymn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
Comfort
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
In Memoriam. A. H. H.: Obiit MDCCCXXXIII
Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
Last Lines
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881)
A Song of Doubt
A Song of Faith
Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
The Doubter’s Prayer
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
East London
Ednah Dow Cheney (1824–1904)
The Larger Prayer
William Allingham (1824–1889)
Loss
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
A Christmas Carol
Wrestling
“None other Lamb, none other Name”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“I never saw a moor”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)
Doubt
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
God’s Grandeur
(Carrion Comfort)
“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
“My eyes for beauty pine”
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867)
Requests
Flowers for the Altar
George Santayana (1863–1952)
“O world, thou choosest not the better part!”
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
A Hymn
Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
