L'autore:
Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of twenty-two Dover literature and poetry collections.
Contenuti:
Anonymous To the Book The Lamentation of a Sinner Anonymous "God be in my head" George Gascoigne De Profundis Philip Sidney "Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust" Robert Southwell A Preparative to Prayer "Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke" Psalm 139 Michael Drayton The Song of Jonah in the Whale's Belly Another Song of the Faithful for the Mercies of God A Song of the Faithful John Day Man's Natural Infirmity John Donne "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?" "At the round earth's imagined corners" Ben Jonson Hymn to God the Father A Prayer To the Holy Trinity George Sandys Psalm 42 Psalm 66 George Wither Divine Support Well-Doing Henry King A Penitential Hymne Robert Herrick Neutrality Loathsome "To God, on His Sicknesse" Litany to the Holy Spirit Francis Quarles "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 Denial The Flower Faith The Temper The Holy Scriptures The Collar Christopher Harvey Confusion Comfort in Extremity Thomas Heywood Search after God Thomas Washbourne "Casting All Your Care upon God, for He Careth for You" John Milton On His Blindness Abraham Cowley Reason: The Use of It in Divine Matters Andrew Marvell On a Drop of Dew Henry Vaughan The Pursuit "They are all gone into the world of light!" Cock-crowing The Water-fall John Bunyan The Pilgrim Thomas Traherne Poverty Insatiableness John Norris The Aspiration The Resignation "Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea" Some Reflections . . . On the 73rd Psalm Thomas Shepherd and John Mason For Communion with God John Mason A Song of Praise for the Morning A Song of Praise for Grace Charles Wesley "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild" Christopher Smart Faith Taste Hymn to the Supreme Being John Newton The Name of Jesus Looking at the Cross William Cowper 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 "A Prayer: Living and Dying" William Blake "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau" The Little Boy Lost William Wordsworth "Not seldom, clad in radiant vest" " Resolution and Independence John Clare The Poet's Swan-Song John Henry Newman The Pillar of the Cloud James Clarence Mangan St. Patrick's Hymn Elizabeth Barrett Browning Comfort "Alfred, Lord Tennyson" In Memoriam. A. H. H.: Obiit MDCCCXXXIII Emily Brontë Last Lines Julia Ward Howe Battle-Hymn of the Republic Josiah Gilbert Holland A Song of Doubt A Song of Faith Anne Brontë The Doubter's Prayer Matthew Arnold East London Ednah Dow Cheney The Larger Prayer William Allingham Loss Christina Georgina Rossetti A Christmas Carol Wrestling "None other Lamb, none other Name" Emily Dickinson "I never saw a moor" Helen Hunt Jackson Doubt Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur (Carrion Comfort) "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend" Robert Bridges "My eyes for beauty pine" Digby Mackworth Dolben Requests Flowers for the Altar George Santayana "O world, thou choosest not the better part!" Gilbert K. Chesterton A Hymn
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