The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1), credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Craig Franklin The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as God; Christ; the Holy Spirit; prayer and aspiration; faith; hope; love; service; the Sabbath; worship; and creed. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by Congregational pastor and progressive writer Washington Gladden (1836-1918). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 153
• Listed recording duration: 7:48:43

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• religion
• Christianity
• faith
• God
• Jesus
• Christ
• prayer

Opening tracks: first 24 of 153

1. 000 - Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden — 19:58
2. 001 - Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning — 0:57
3. 002 - A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous — 2:45
4. 003 - Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall — 5:17
5. 004 - Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson — 1:17
6. 005 - Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes — 4:23
7. 006 - Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by Anonymous — 4:11
8. 007 - The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope — 3:12
9. 008 - Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison — 1:32
10. 009 - Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers) by George Wither — 1:54
11. 010 - Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — 6:09
12. 011 - The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett — 2:20
13. 012 - Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner — 1:25
14. 013 - God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope — 5:22
15. 014 - Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper — 1:25
16. 015 - God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin — 6:34
17. 016 - God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll — 2:19
18. 017 - Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard — 2:23
19. 018 - Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson — 2:06
20. 019 - Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts — 2:34
21. 020 - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther — 1:24
22. 021 - Delight in God by Francis Quarles — 3:42
23. 022 - The Will of God by Frederick William Faber — 2:42
24. 023 - The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason — 1:39

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