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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 | |