| Anonymous. | Be my comfort, Christ Jesus! |
Prayer of Richard de Castre |
Quia Amore Langueo |
Geoffrey Chaucer.
1340?–1400. | Virginibus Puerisque |
Sir Walter Ralegh.
1552?–1618. | Pilgrimage |
Written in His Bible the Night before His Execution |
Edmund Spenser.
1552?–1599. | The Ministry of Angels |
Easter Day |
The Love of Christ |
Sir Philip Sidney.
1554–1586. | Sonnet: “Leave me, O love” |
Mary Countess of
Pembroke.
1555?–1621. | Psalm CXXXIX |
Fulke Greville,
Lord Brooke.
1554–1628. | Faith and Works |
Robert Southwell.
1561?–1595. | The Burning Babe |
Man’s Civil War |
At Home in Heaven |
Lost Grace |
Samuel Daniel.
1562–1619. | Faith and Form |
Works |
Henry Constable.
1562–1613. | To St Margaret |
William
Shakespeare.
1564–1616. | Soul and Body |
Thomas Campion.
?–1619. | The Christian Stoic |
Song: “Author of life” |
Song: “Never weather-beaten sail” |
| A. W. | Dialogue |
“Though late, my heart, yet turn at last” |
| F. B. P. | Urbs Beata Hierusalem |
| Anonymous. | The Invitation |
The Heart’s Chambers |
Confession |
A Royal Guest |
Sir John Davies.
1569–1626. | Self-Knowledge |
Self-Ignorance |
Sir Henry Wotton.
1568–1639. | The Character of a Happy Life |
Hymn: “Eternal Mover” |
John Donne.
1573–1631. | Four Sonnets: I. “Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?” |
II. “As due by many titles, I resign” |
III. “At the round earth’s imagin’d corners blow” |
IV. “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee” |
Litany |
A Hymn to God the Father |
Hymn to God in my Sickness |
Good Friday—Riding Westward |
Easter Day |
The Cross |
Christ the Judge |
Crosses |
Ben Jonson.
1573?–1647. | An Hymn to God the Father |
To Heaven |
The Fortress of Mansoul |
William
Drummond.
1585–1649. | A Hymn of the Resurrection |
Faith without Works |
Change should breed Change |
No Trust in Time |
Robert Herrick.
1591–1674. | Litany |
Eternity |
To his Conscience |
Lent |
To Death |
To find God |
Upon God |
Humility |
Giles Fletcher.
1588?–1623. | The Incarnation |
The Passion |
The Resurrection |
Earth and Heaven |
George Herbert.
1593–1633. | From “The Church Porch”: Education |
Wealth |
Friendship |
Conduct |
Health |
Praise |
Sin |
The Pulley |
Man’s Medley |
The Quip |
The Collar |
The Pilgrimage |
Discipline |
The Flower |
The Elixir |
Employment |
Love |
A Wreath |
Bitter-Sweet |
Easter |
Dialogue |
Church Music |
Praise |
The Bird |
The Temper |
Regeneration |
Divinity |
Francis Quarles.
1592–1644. | False World |
The Threshing Floor |
The Foil |
The Loadstone |
Richard Crashaw.
1613?–1640. | A Hymn of the Nativity |
Christ when He died |
God’s Love and Man’s |
A Descant on the Twenty-third Psalm |
To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus: A Hymn |
The Dear Bargain |
S. Mary Magdalene |
A Hymn to S. Teresa |
Upon the Book and Picture of the seraphical Saint Teresa |
Sir William
Davenant.
1606–1668. | Life and Death |
William Habington.
1605–1654. | Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam |
Sir Thomas
Browne.
1605–1682. | An Evening Prayer |
John Milton.
1608–1674. | On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity |
Morning Hymn |
The Spacious Firmament |
Upon the Circumcision |
God’s Providence |
On his Blindness |
At a Solemn Music |
On Time—To be set on a Clock-Case |
Jeremy Taylor.
1613–1667. | Hymn for Advent |
A Prayer for Charity |
Alexander Rosse.
1590–1654. | Affliction |
John Mason.
1646?–1694. | A General Song of Praise to Almighty God |
The Peace of God |
Joseph Beaumont.
1616–1699. | The House of the Mind |
Henry More.
1614–1687. | Resolution |
The Philosopher’s Devotion |
Richard Baxter.
1615–1691. | The Exit |
Andrew Marvell.
1621–1678. | A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure |
On a Drop of Dew |
Henry Vaughan.
1622–1695. | Mattins |
Man |
The Retreat |
Etenim Res Creatæ Exerto Capite Observantes Expectant Revelationem Filiorum Dei |
Desert |
Love and Discipline |
The World |
Providence |
The Rainbow |
The Night |
Departed Friends |
The Dawning |
John Bunyan.
1628–1688. | The Shepherd Boy’s Song in the Valley of Humiliation |
John Norris.
1657–1711. | The Aspiration |
| Anonymous. | For Christmas |
Litany |
Thomas Traherne.
1637?–1674. | The Ways of Wisdom |
God’s Love and Man’s |
Joseph Addison.
1672–1719. | An Ode |
Isaac Watts.
1674–1748. | A Sight of Heaven in Sickness |
John Byrom.
1692–1763. | The Desponding Soul’s Wish |
The Answer |
The Soul’s Tendency towards its True Centre |
Divine Epigrams |
Charles Wesley.
1707–1788. | Wrestling with the Angel |
William Cowper.
1731–1800. | Light out of Darkness |
The Contrite Heart |
Thomas Chatterton.
1752–1770. | Faith |
George Crabbe.
1754–1832. | The Pilgrim |
William Blake.
1757–1827. | The New Jerusalem |
The Two Songs |
Auguries of Innocence |
Divine Epigrams |
William
Wordsworth.
1770–1850. | Ode to Duty |
The Influence of Nature |
An Evening Voluntary |
My heart leaps up when I behold |
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free |
Written in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge |
Truth and Change |
Childhood and Age |
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
1772–1834. | The Nativity |
To his Child |
On his Baptismal Birthday |
Joy |
Reginald Heber.
1783–1826. | Praise |
Hartley Coleridge.
1796–1849. | The Just shall live by Faith |
Prayer: I. There is an awful quiet in the air |
II. Be not afraid to pray—to pray is right |
John Keble.
1792–1866. | The Winter Thrush |
The Watch by Night |
Holy Baptism |
Angels and Children |
The Waterfall |
The Voice of Nature |
Prevenient Grace |
Loneliness |
Sowing and Reaping |
The Power of Prayer |
Penance |
The Burial of the Dead |
Felicia Dorothea
Hemans.
1793–1835. | De Profundis |
John Henry
Newman.
1801–1890. | The Elements |
Light in the Darkness |
Deeds not Words |
Chastisement |
Separation of Friends |
A Voice from Afar |
Waiting for the Morning |
Richard Hurrell
Froude.
1803–1836. | New and Old Self |
Weakness of Nature |
John Sterling.
1806–1844. | When up to nightly skies we gaze |
Richard
Chenevix Trench.
1807–1886. | The Kingdom of God |
Not thou from us, O Lord, but we |
Lord, many times I am aweary quite |
A genial moment oft has given |
Lines written after hearing some beautiful singing in a Convent Church at Rome |
The Holy Eucharist |
Prayer |
Couplets |
Alfred Lord
Tennyson.
1809–1892. | Immortality |
Will |
On a Mourner |
Crossing the Bar |
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.
1809–1861. | Heaven and Earth |
Work |
Bereavement |
Substitution |
The Prospect |
Robert Browning.
1812–1889. | The Guardian Angel |
The Boy and the Angel |
The Creator’s Joy |
Frederick
William Faber.
1814–1863. | The Sorrowful World |
Sunday |
Low Spirits |
Thomas Toke
Lynch.
1818–1871. | Stars |
Prayer |
Inconstancy |
Charles Kingsley.
1819–1875. | A Nun’s Song |
A Mother’s Song |
Arthur Hugh
Clough.
1819–1861. | “Old things need not be therefore true” |
Say not, the struggle nought availeth |
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? |
Matthew Arnold.
1822–1888. | Desire |
Morality |
Thomas
Blackburne.
1821–1859. | An Easter Hymn |
Coventry Patmore.
1823–1896. | Magna est Veritas |
Remembered Grace |
Victory in Defeat |
The Toys |
“Let be!” |
Dora Greenwell.
1821–1882. | In Spring the green leaves shoot |
The Lesson |
One Friend |
Christina Georgina
Rossetti.
1830–1894. | A New and Old Year Song |
From House to Home |
“The Will of the Lord be done” |
“That where I am, there ye may be also” |
Sooner or later: yet at last |
A chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea |
O foolish soul! to make thy count |
“A Vain Shadow” |
Frederic William
Henry Myers.
1843–1901. | S. Paul speaks |
Gerard Manley
Hopkins.
1844–1889. | Barnfloor and Winepress |
God’s Grandeur |
Heaven Haven |
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice |
Hymn |
Spring and Fall |
Digby
Mackworth-Dolben.
1848–1867. | The Shrine |
A Song of the New Jerusalem |
Requests |
Robert Louis
Stevenson.
1850–1894. | The Celestial Surgeon |
The House Beautiful |
George
MacDonald.
1824–1905. | Longing |
Edward Dowden.
1843–1913. | Ah, that sharp thrill through all my frame! |
A speaker to God |
Robert Bridges.
1844–1930. | Joy |
Since to be loved endures |
When I see childhood on the threshold seize |
These meagre rhymes which a returning mood |
Pater Noster |
Laus Deo |
Francis Thompson.
1859–1907. | The Hound of Heaven |
| Anonymous. | Dominus illuminatio mea |
