Lyrical, narrative and devotional poems

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. POEMS ON THE BIBLE

PRELUDE

George Alexander Kohut.

CREATION'S PSALM.

.Swithin Saint Swithaine

ADAM'S MORNING HYMN IN PARADISE. John Milton

ADAM TO EVE...

.John Milton

ADAM's COMPLAINT.

.Theophanes—John Mason Neale,

Translator

Eve's LAMENT..

John Milton

THE LEGEND OF THE DEAD LAMBS

Owen Meredith

EVE

.Christina Georgina Rossetti

EVE AT THE FOUNTAIN,

John Kebble Hervey

THE DEPARTURE FROM PARADISE

John Milton

EVE

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

THE TRANSLATION OF THE PATRIARCH. .Lucy A. Randall

THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH.

..Lydia Huntley Sigourney

FRAGMENT OF A POEM ON THE WORLD

BEFORE THE FLOOD.

Reginald Heber

THE ENTRANCE INTO THE ARK.

Jean Ingelow

THE ARK AND THE DOVE..

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

THE GIFT OF THE KING..

Sabine Baring-Gould

NIMRUD AND THE GNAT.

Edwin Arnold

ABRAHAM AND HIS GODS.

ABRAHAM AND THE FIRE WORSHIPPER. Leigh Hunt

ABRAHAM AND THE IDOLATOR.

Sa'adi (translated by G. A. Kohut)

ABRAHAM's OFFENCE

Edwin Arnold

THE TREASURE OF ABRAM.

Eliza Poitevent Nicholson

HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS,

. Nathaniel Parker Willis

Hagar DEPARTED

. Edward Everett Hale

THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN.

..John Greenleaf hittier.

THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM

. Nathaniel Parker Willis.

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.Lydia Huntley Sigourney...

· Arthur Hugh Clough..

George Croly

S. D.

Anonymous

George Crabbe

..Charles Jeremiah Wells

. Arthur Hugh Clough..

Nathaniel Parker Willis

John Hay
.Charles Wesley

..William Wilfred Campbell.

.Lizette Woodworth Reese.

William Knox

.James Grahume
· Arthur Hugh Clough.
Mary L. Clough

George Crabbe

.Charles Jeremiah Wells.

Robert Needham Cust.

James Grahame..

Erasmus Darwin

Victor Hugo (Translated by

Walter Hart Blumenthal).....

Charles and Mary Lamb....

James Montgomery

.Richard Chenevir Trench.
George Croly
Edwin Atherstone
Abraham Cowley
.Samuel Rogers
.Reginald Heber
.James S. Wallace.

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MOSES AND THE WORM..

Johann Gottfried von Herder.... 108

..Lydia Huntley Sigourney.

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“THE ROCK" IN EL-GHOR.

..John Greenleaf Whittier

THE CURSE AND THE BLESSING.

SHEMA YISRAEL ADONAY ELOHAINU

ADONAY ECHOD
.Ibbie McColm Wilson..

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THE SECOND SONG OF Moses.

..George Wither

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The Kiss of God.

..John White Chadwick

WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.

Thomas Moore

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BURIAL OF Moses

..Cecil Frances Alexander

.Ferdinand Freiligrath (Translated

by J. Gostick)

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“No Man Knoweth His SEPULCHRE”..... .William Cullen Bryant

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The Death of Moses...

· Richard Henry Stoddard.

The Dying SOLDIER OF JOSHUA.

THE BATTLE OF GIBEON.

. Bernard Barton

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THE SONG OF DEBORAH AND BARAK. .George Wither

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DEBORAH'S TRIUMPHANT SONG..

JEPHTHAH, JUDGE OF ISRAEL.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The Dirge OF JEPTHAH'S DAUGHTER....... Robert Herrick

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The WIFE OF MANOAH TO HER HUSBAND.. John Greenleaf Whittier

SAMSON ON HIS BLINDNESS.

.John Milton

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SAMSON: CHAMPION AND JUDGE OF ISRAEL. · Alexander S. Arnold

.William Oliver Bourne Peabody.. 153

.Nathaniel Parker Willis

. Edward Everett Hale

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"SPEAK. LORD, For Thy SERVANT HEAR-

ETH”
James Drummond Borthwick

. Charles and Mary Lamb..

Filial PIETY OF DAVID..

DAVID AND ABIGAIL..

SAUL

SONG OF SAUL BEFORE His Last BATTLE.

THE FIELD OF GILBOA...

GILBOA

KYNGE David, Hys LAMENTE OVER THE

BODYES OF KYNGE SAUL OF ISRAEL

AND Hys SONNE JONATHAN..

THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID OVER SAUL

AND JONATHAN His Son...

LAMENTATION OF David OVER SAUL AND

JONATHAN

DAVID ENAMOURED OF BETHSABE.

The CHAMBER OVER THE GATE..

David's GRIEF FOR HIS Child.

ABSALOM

THE TOMB OF ABSALOM..

JOAB's ADDRESS TO DAVID ON DEATH OF

ABSALOM

JoaB's DESCRIPTION OF David.

JOAB AT THE BATTLE OF MEDEBA.

BARZILLAI THE Gileadite.

The VIGIL OF Rizpah.

RIZPAH WITH HER Sons.

RIZPAH

David's Three Mighty ONES.

David IN THE Cave of ADULLAM.

THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM.

THE WATER OF BETHLEHEM GATE.

THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM.

DAVID

The End Of David..

EPILOGUE

THE VISION OF SOLOMON.

SOLOMON'S WISDOM

The Two TEMPLES.

CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE..

HIRAM'S TOMB

King SOLOMON AND THE ANTS.

A LEGEND OF THE Wise KING.

SOLOMON AND THE Ant..

SOLOMON AND THE ANTS.

KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES.

SOLOMON AND BALKIS.

SOLOMON AND THE SOWER.

.George Sandys

.George Peele

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nathaniel Parker Willis.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

.Lydia Huntley Sigourney

George Peele

.George Peele

.. Alexander S. Arnold

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

.Felicia Hemans

.Nathaniel Parker Willis
.William Cullen Bryant
.George M. Vickers
.Lucy Blins

.Henry Francis Lyte.

Charles and Mary Lamb.

.Richard Frederick Littledale.

Edward Hayes Plumptre.

.Barbara Miller Macandrew.

.John Stuart Blackie...

Gulielma A. Wheeler Baker.

.Robert Needham Cust

John Greenleaf Whittier

.James A. McCreedy
.Edwin Arnold
Richard Monckton Milnes

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SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT

ARRAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE..... . Abraham Cowley

AZRAEL AND THE INDIAN PRINCE.

Edwin Arnold

AZRAEL

.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

SOLOMON AND AZRAEL.

.Richard Chenevix Trench.

THE APPLE OF LIFE.

Owen Meredith

The Roses OF SOLOMON.

.Lydia Huntley Sigourney.

HADAD

.Sabine Baring-Gould....

(Hadad's DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF

DAVID)

James Abraham Hillhouse.

The Man of GOD FROM JUDAH.

.Barbara Miller Macandrew.

THE HEBREW MOTHER.

Barbara Miller Macandrew.

ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS.

.James Grahame

The Widow OF ZAREPHATH.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney.

ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL.

.E. E. D.

ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS.

James Montgomery

THE STILL SMALL VOICE..

THE ASCENSION OF ELIJAH

..James Stephenson

THE ASCENT OF ELIJAH.

.Winthrop Mackworth Praed.

AHAB THE BUILDER..

John Elliott Bowman..

THE DEATH OF AHAB.

.Richard Wilton

THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL.

.Nathaniel Parker Willis

THE LAW OF LOVE.

Richard Chenevix Trench.

THE REPLY OF THE SHUNAMITE WOMAN.. Felicia Hemans

NAAMAN'S SERVANT

.John Keble

DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERiB's ARMY

BY A PESTILENTIAL WIND....

Erasmus Darwin

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. .Lord Byron

LA CONVALESCENCE D'EZECHIAS (HEZE-

KIAH'S RECOVERY)

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.

.Robert Southey

(JEWISH HYMN IN BABYLON).

Henry Hart Milman

THE PRAYER OF JABEZ..

Richard Wilton

David's THANKSGIVING.

.George Wither

JEHOSHAPHAT'S DELIVERANCE

.George Lansing Taylor.

The Jews' RETURN TO JERUSALEM W. H. Roberts..

THE PRAYER OF NEHEMIAH..

George Wither

QUEEN Vashti's LAMENT.

Jean Baptiste Racine.

MORDECAI

.Helen Jackson

THE PRAYER OF MARDOCHEUS.

Michael Drayton

A PURIM RETROSPECT.

.W. S. Howard

ESTHER OR "THE ORIGIN OF THE FEAST

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