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Introduction | |
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The Dream of the Rood | |
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'Thou who createdst everything' | |
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('Wait a Little') | |
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('Undo!') | |
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'Now fade the rose and lily-flower' | |
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'Moon-like is all other love' | |
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from Cleanness | |
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from The Book Concerning Piers the Plowman | |
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from Troilus and Criseyde | |
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from Prologue to The Canterbury Tales | |
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('Quia Amore Langueo') | |
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'I sing of a maiden' | |
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'Adam lay y-bounden' | |
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On the Resurrection of Christ | |
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This Endris Night | |
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Psalm 130. 'Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, Lord' | |
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Christ to his Spouse | |
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Christ, my Beloved | |
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Gascoigne's Good-morrow | |
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Gascoigne's Good-night | |
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Psalm 100. 'O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands' (All people that on earth do dwell) | |
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Hierusalem | |
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Away Vane World | |
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from The Faerie Queene (And is there care in heaven?) | |
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from Amoretti (Most glorious Lord of life!) | |
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The Holy Well | |
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from Caelica | |
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Sonnet 89. 'The Manicheans did no idols make' | |
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Sonnet 96. 'In those years when our Sense, Desire and Wit' | |
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Sonnet 105. 'Three things there be in Man's opinion dear' | |
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(Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis) (Leave me, O Love, which reaches but to dust) | |
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Of the Day Estivall | |
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Of Gods Omnipotencie | |
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Look Home | |
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New Prince, New Pomp | |
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The Burning Babe | |
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from The Sidney Psalter: Psalm 58. 'Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?' | |
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from The Sidney Psalter: Psalm 74. 'O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?' | |
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from The Sidney Psalter: Psalm 115. 'Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us' | |
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from The Sidney Psalter: Psalm 139. 'O Lord, thou has searched me, and known me' | |
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from The Sidney Psalter: Psalm 147. 'Praise ye the Lord' | |
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Sonnet 146. 'Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth' | |
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'If I could shut the gate' | |
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Miserere, My Maker | |
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Sweet was the Song | |
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'To Music bent is my retired Mind' | |
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God's Virtue | |
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To Heaven | |
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Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward | |
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from Holy Sonnets: 'Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?' | |
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from Holy Sonnets: 'Why are we by all creatures waited on?' | |
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from Holy Sonnets: 'What if this present were the world's last night?' | |
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from A Litanie | |
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(Easter Morn) | |
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His Saviour's Words, Going to the Cross | |
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Like to the Arctic Needle | |
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On Those that Deserve It | |
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Redemption | |
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Jordan | |
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Church-monuments | |
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The Windows | |
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Virtue | |
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The Collar | |
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The Pulley | |
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Discipline | |
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The Pearl | |
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Love | |
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A True Hymn | |
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The Temper | |
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Frailty | |
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Peace | |
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The Flower | |
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Upon a Great Shower of Snow that fell on May-day, 1654 | |
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The Circulation | |
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from Last Verses | |
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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | |
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Sonnet, On the late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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Sonnet, (On his Blindness) | |
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from Paradise Lost, Book V (O favourable spirit, propitious guest) | |
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from Paradise Lost, Book XII (Descended, Adam to the bower where Eve) | |
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from Samson Agonistes (O how comely it is and how reviving) | |
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'Lord, when the wise men came from far' | |
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To my Dear and Loving Husband | |
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In Memory of my dear grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet | |
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Epithalamium | |
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Charitas Nimia: or the Dear Bargain | |
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from A Psalm of Praise (Ye holy Angels bright) | |
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Bermudas | |
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The Coronet | |
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Quickness | |
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The Retreat | |
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Peace | |
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Ascension Hymn | |
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The World | |
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Man | |
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The Waterfall | |
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The Dawning | |
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The Revival | |
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Corruption | |
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Religion | |
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The Night | |
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(The Pilgrim Song) (Who would true Valour see) | |
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from An Elegie upon the Death of the Reverend Mr Thomas Shepard | |
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from The State of Innocence | |
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from Religio Laici | |
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The Character of a Good Parson | |
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The Salutation | |
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from Christian Ethics | |
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Ibid. (Contentment) | |
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'Glory to thee, my God, this night' | |
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Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold | |
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from Preparatory Meditations Before My Approach to the Lord's Supper | |
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Ibid. | |
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'While shepherds watched their flocks by night' | |
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On Exodus 3:14. 'I am that I am.' An Ode | |
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Ode (The spacious firmament on high) | |
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Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ | |
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Submission to Afflictive Providences | |
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Look on him whom they pierced, and mourn | |
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The Church the Garden of Christ | |
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A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy | |
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Man frail, and God eternal (O God, our help in ages past) | |
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Hosanna to Christ | |
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The Shortness and Misery of Life | |
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Miracles at the Birth of Christ | |
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'Where-e'er my flatt'ring Passions rove' | |
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The Passion and Exaltation of Christ | |
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(After reading the life of Mrs Catherine Stubbs ...) | |
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A Hymn for Christmas Day | |
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(Christ's Resurrection and Ascension) | |
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Meditations on the Sepulchre in the Garden | |
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'Love Divine, all loves excelling' | |
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Free Grace | |
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'O thou Eternal Victim slain' | |
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(The Incarnation) | |
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from The Horrible Decree | |
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(During his Courtship) | |
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(For his Wife, on her Birthday) | |
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(On the Death of his Son) | |
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(On Sympathisers with the American Revolution) | |
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Wrestling Jacob | |
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The Whole Armour of God | |
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Psalm 147. 'Praise ye the Lord' | |
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from Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England: Hymn 3. Epiphany | |
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from Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England: Hymn 13. St Philip and St James | |
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from Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England: Hymn 14. The Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ | |
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from Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Fasts and Festivals of the Church of England: Hymn 32. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ | |
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from Hymns for the Amusement of Children: Hymn 9. Moderation | |
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from Hymns for the Amusement of Children: Hymn 13. Elegance | |
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from Hymns for the Amusement of Children: Hymn 14. Loveliness | |
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from Hymns for the Amusement of Children: Hymn 15. Taste | |
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from Hymns for the Amusement of Children: Hymn 26. Mutual Subjection | |
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from Hymns for the Amusement of Children: Hymn 29. Long-suffering of God | |
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'All hail the power of Jesus' name' | |
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'How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds' | |
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'Glorious things of thee are spoken' | |
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from Truth | |
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Love Constraining to Obedience | |
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Self-Acquaintance | |
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'The Lord will Happiness divine' | |
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Walking with God | |
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Light Shining out of Darkness | |
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Joy and Peace in Believing | |
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Jehovah our Righteousness | |
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Exhortation to Prayer | |
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Stanzas Subjoined to the Yearly Bill of Mortality of the Parish of All Saints, Northampton: for the year 1787 | |
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On a Similar Occasion: for the year 1790 | |
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On a Similar Occasion: for the year 1792 | |
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'Rock of Ages' | |
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from The Triumph of Infidelity | |
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Jerusalem | |
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Address to the Unco Guid | |
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Resolution and Independence | |
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Nativity | |
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My Baptismal Birthday | |
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Epitaph | |
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'By Cool Siloam's shady Rill' | |
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(Morning Hymn) (New every morning is the love) | |
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'Fill high the bowl' | |
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(Epithalamium) | |
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'Abide with me' | |
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Psalm 103. 'Praise the Lord, O my soul' (Praise, my soul, the King of heaven) | |
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Lord, Hear my Prayer | |
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Eternal Light | |
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from The Dream of Gerontius (Praise to the holiest in the height) | |
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(Guidance) (Lead, kindly light) | |
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The Over-Heart | |
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The Call of the Christian | |
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from The Eternal Goodness | |
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from The Brewing of Soma | |
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Worship | |
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from In Memoriam | |
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The Created | |
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'Oh, give us back the days of old' | |
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Battle-Hymn of the Republic | |
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'Eternal Father, strong to save' | |
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'Our journey had advanced' | |
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'I shall know why' | |
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'Bring me the sunset in a cup' | |
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'We thirst at first' | |
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'Just lost when I was saved' | |
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'I stepped from plank to plank' | |
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'To learn the transport by the pain' | |
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'Tis so much joy!' | |
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'It is an honorable thought' | |
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'Heaven is what I cannot reach' | |
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'Read, sweet, how others strove' | |
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'I should have been too glad' | |
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'Great streets of silence led away' | |
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'He fumbles at your soul' | |
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'Immortal is an ample word' | |
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'Remorse is memory awake' | |
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'The only news I know' | |
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'He preached upon "Breadth"' | |
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The Bitter Withy | |
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Easter Monday | |
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St Peter | |
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Heaven-Haven | |
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'As kingfishers catch fire' | |
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'I wake and feel the fell of dark' | |
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In the Valley of the Elwy | |
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A General Communion | |
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The Fugitive | |
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In Portugal, 1912 | |
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Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913 | |
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Low Barometer | |
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Christmas Day. The Family Sitting | |
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The Kingdom of God | |
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At the 'Ye that do truly' | |
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'Turn back, O man' | |
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from Sagesse | |
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Journey of the Magi | |
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A Song for Simeon | |
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Marina | |
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Usk | |
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The Annunciation | |
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'How on solemn fields of space' | |
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A, a, a, Domine Deus | |
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from Forty Days (The Second Ascension of Christ) | |
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A Lullaby | |
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The Airy Christ | |
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Mater Dei | |
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Original Sin: A Short Story | |
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Sunday Afternoon Service in St Enodoc Church, Cornwall | |
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The Shield of Achilles | |
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Anthem | |
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Amor Loci | |
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Soldiers Bathing | |
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The Hand | |
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The Porch | |
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Knole | |
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A Letter to John Donne | |
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The Usk | |
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Cato | |
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(Alcoholic) | |
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'Neither Shadow of Turning' | |
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Mould of Castile | |
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Growing in Grace | |
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On the Death of Karl Barth | |
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The Heavenly Aeroplane | |
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An Art of Poetry | |
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New Guinea | |
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Latter Day Psalms | |
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A Stranger in this Land | |
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In a Garden | |
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The Dispossessed | |
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Christmas Trees | |
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Lachrimae Amantis | |
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The Slip | |
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from The Fragments | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Notes and References | |
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Index of First Lines | |
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Index of Authors | |