Poems of Faith

Bob Blaisdell

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780486424477
• eBook ISBN: 9780486112183
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Religious Poetry
• Index: Literature

The best-known works of more than 60 British and American poets, written over a period of nearly 400 years, comprise this superb collection of verse. Focusing on poems of faith — inspiring, comforting, and profound works with religious themes and ideals — the volume includes "Holy Sonnets" by John Donne, Ben Jonson's "To the Holy Trinity, " "Paradise" by George Herbert, "On His Blindness" by John Milton, as well as poems by Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Edward Taylor, Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, William Blake, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and many others. A rich treasury of stirring verse, this collection is ideal for classroom use or for independent study but will also appeal to lovers of exceptional English and American poetry. Dover original selection of poems from standard editions.

Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines

(Titles are given, in italics, only when distinct from the first lines.)

Alas, my God, that we should be

Alas my Lord

Alas! my Lord is going

Another Song of the Faithful for the Mercies of God

As in the House I sat

Aspiration, The

At first I prayed for Light

A thankful heart hath earn’d one favor twice

At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow

Battle-Hymn of the Republic

(Carrion Comfort)

Casting All Your Care upon God, for He Careth for You

Christmas Carol, A

Cock-crowing

Collar, The

Come heavy souls, oppressed that are

Comfort

Comfort in Extremity

Confusion

Contrite Heart, The

Day will return with a fresher boon

Delight in God Only

Denial

De Profundis

Divine Support

Doubt

Doubter’s Prayer, The

East London

Ephraim Repenting

Eternal Power, of earth and air!

Faith (“Lord, how couldst thou so much appease”)

Faith (“The Father of the Faithful said”)

“Father! father! where are you going?

Father of lights! what Sunny seed

Flowers for the Altar

Flower, The

For Communion with God

From depth of dole wherein my soul doth dwell

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild

God be in my head

God’s Grandeur

God will have all, or none; serve Him, or fall

Go, little Book, get thee acquaintance

Good and great God! can I. not think of thee

Grieve not much for loss of wealth

Happy sons of Israel

Heal us, Emmanuel! here we are

Hearken, O God, unto a Wretch’s cries

Hear me, O God!

Hither, Ardelia, I your steps pursue

Holy Scriptures, The

How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean

How long, great God, how long must I

How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymes

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds

Hymn, A

Hymn to God the Father

Hymn to the Supreme Being

I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?

I asked for Peace

I love (and have some cause to love) the earth

I never saw a moor

In evil long I took delight

In grief and anguish of my heart, my voice I did extend

In Memoriam. A. H. H.

Insatiableness

In the bleak mid-winter

In the hour of my distress

I should not care how hard my fortunes were

I sought thee, round about, O thou my God!

I struck the board, and cried, “No more!

Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee

Joy and Peace in Believing

Lamentation of a Sinner, The

Larger Prayer, The

Last Lines

Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust

Litany to the Holy Spirit

Little Boy Lost, The

Long have I view’d, long have I thought

Looking at the Cross

Lord! as the hart emboss’d with heat

Lord, at thy voice my heart for fear hath trembled Lord, how couldst thou so much appease

Lord! what a busy, restless thing

Loss

Man’s Ingratitude

Man’s Natural Infirmity

May Christ, I pray

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

My eyes for beauty pine

My feet were almost gone, my treadings had well nigh

My God, till I received thy stroke

My God was with me all this night

Name of Jesus, The

Neutrality Loathsome

No coward soul is mine

None other Lamb, none other Name

Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee

Not seldom, clad in radiant vest

No Walls confine! Can nothing hold my Mind?

O God of earth and altar

O God of grace, who hast restor’d

O Guide my judgment and my taste

Oh Book! inf...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Note
• Table of Contents
• Anonymous (c. 1539)
• Anonymous (c. 1558)
• George Gascoigne (1525?–1577)
• Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
• Robert Southwell (1560–1595)
• Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621)
• Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
• John Day (1566–1628)
• John Donne (1572–1631)
• Ben Jonson (1574–1637).
• George Sandys (1577–1643)
• George Wither (1588–1667)
• Henry King (1591–1669)
• Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
• Francis Quarles (1592–1664)
• George Herbert (1593—1632)
• Christophe Harvey (1597–1663)
• Thomas Heywood (d. 1641)
• Thomas Washboune (1606–1687)
• John Milton (1608–1687)
• Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
• Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
• Henry Vaughan (1622—1695)
• Thomas Traherne (1636?–1674)
• John Norris (1637–1711)
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
• Thomas Shepherd (1665-1739) and John Mason (d. 1694)
• John Mason (d. 1694)
• Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
• Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
• John Newton (1725–1807)
• William Cowper (1731–1800)
• Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)
• William Blake (1757–1827)
• William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
• John Clare (1793–1864)
• John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
• James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
• Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
• Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)
• Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881)
• Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
• Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
• Ednah Dow Cheney (1824–1904)
• William Allingham (1824–1889)
• Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
• Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
• Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
• Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867)
• George Santayana (1863–1952)
• Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
• Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines