The Poetry of Faith

Devotional and metaphysical poetry — Hopkins, Herbert, Donne, and Rossetti, who made belief and doubt into song.

Verse reaching past the visible

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• Lines to My Mother
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Hymn
• Isaiah 33: 20-–-21
• Galatians
• Death in Life
• Out of the Deep of Doubt, Darkness, and Hell
• This is my Play's Last Scene; here Heavens Appoint
• The Fall
• Zacchaeus
• The Expiration
• The Strolling Saint
• Air and Angels
• Stray Birds
• Jealousy
• Acts 27
• Exodus 15
• The Little Candle
• The Boy out of Church
• The Seaboard Parish. Volume III
• The Transmigrations of a Soul
• The Inferno
• He Heeded Not
• The Doubter's Prayer Acton Bell
• Winter: a Dirge
• Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish
• Paraphrase of the First Psalm
• The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Versified
• Prayer, in the Prospect of Death
• Stanzas, on the same Occasion
• The Cotter's Saturday Night
• Prayer-O Thou Dread Power
• On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq
• Lines Written in Friars'-Carse Hermitage
• Written in Friar's-Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
• New Year's Day
• On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
• The Reaper and the Flowers
• Flowers
• The Beleaguered City
• God's-Acre
• The Good Part, that Shall not be Taken Away
• Hymn for my Brother's Ordination
• Divina Commedia
• The Three Silences of Molinos
• St. John's, Cambridge
• The Sermon of St. Francis
• Old St. David's at Radnor
• The Sifting of Peter
• My Cathedral
• Auf Wiedersehen
• The Divine Tragedy
• The Good Shepherd
• Lord, what am I, that with Unceasing Care
• The Native Land
• The Image of God
• San Miguel, the Convent
• Santa Teresa's Book-Mark
• The Children of the Lord's Supper
• The Legend of the Crossbill
• Blessed are the Dead
• Allah
• The Soul's Complaint against the Body
• Sound Sleep
• The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee
• The Convent Threshold
• The Love of Christ which Passeth Knowledge
• A Bruised Reed Shall he not Break
• A Better Resurrection
• Advent
• The Three Enemies
• Christian and Jew
• Sweet Death
• Symbols
• Consider the Lilies of the Field
• The World
• A Testimony
• From House to Home
• Old and New Year Ditties
• Mother Country
• A Portrait
• Twice
• One Day
• Thy Brother's Blood Crieth
• Consider
• Shall I Forget?
• L. E. L
• Bird or Beast?
• Eve
• They Desire a Better Country
• The Lowest Room
• My Friend
• A Christmas Carol
• By the Waters of Babylon
• Paradise
• I will Lift up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills
• Saints and Angels
• When my Heart is Vexed, I will Complain
• After Communion
• A Rose Plant in Jericho
• Who Shall Deliver me?
• Despised and Rejected
• Long Barren
• If Only
• Dost Thou not Care?
• Weary in Well-Doing
• Martyrs' Song
• After this the Judgment
• Good Friday
• The Lowest Place
• A Ballad of Boding
• Till to-Morrow
• At Last
• I will Arise
• A Prodigal Son
• An "Immurata" Sister
• If Thou Sayest, Behold, we Knew it Not
• The Thread of Life
• All Thy Works Praise Thee, o Lord
• Later Life: a Double Sonnet of Sonnets

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