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Cover
Contents
Editors’ Preface
“A Heauenly Poesie”: The Devotional Lyric
A Note on the Texts
PART ONE: THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE DEVOTIONAL LYRIC
The Book of Psalms (C. Seventh Century B.C.E.)
Psalm 6
Psalm 8
Psalm 23
Psalm 42
Psalm 98
Sappho (C. 625–C. 570 B.C.E.)
Fragment 1
The Book of Jeremiah (Early Sixth Century B.C.E.)
Chapter 10.19–24
The Book of Job (C. Sixth–Fourth Centuries B.C.E.)
Chapter 10
Anacreon (C. 582–485 B.C.E.)
[To Dionysos] [“O Lord, with whom the conqueror Eros”]
The Book of Jonah (C. Fifth–Fourth Centuries B.C.E.)
Chapter 2: Jonah’s Prayer
Homeric Hymn to Ares (C. Third Century B.C.E.)
To Ares
The Song of Songs (C. Third Century B.C.E.?)
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Lucretius (C. 99–C. 55 B.C.E.)
from De rerum natura Lines I-25
Horace (65–8 B.C.E.)
Ode 1.31
Ode 3.22
The Gospel According to Luke (C. 60–80 C.E.)
Luke 1.46–55 (The Magnificat)
PART TWO: EARLY CHRISTIAN LYRICS THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Clement of Alexandria (C. 150–C. 215)
Ode to the Saviour Christ
Gregory of Nazianzus (C. 329–C. 390)
An Evening Hymn
Ambrose of Milan (340–397)
[“Maker of all, eternal King,”]
Prudentius (348–c. 413)
Epilogue
Cædmon (fl. c. 657)
Cædmon’s Hymn
Alcuin (C. 735–804)
On the Holy Cross
Rabanus Maurus (C. 776–856)
Come, O Creator Spirit, Come
Gottschalk (803?–867?)
[“Why do you ask, little boy,”]
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
The Loving Soul’s Jubilation
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
Lost, All in Wonder
Medieval Lyrics (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
[“Now goes sun under wood”]
[“The mind of thy passion, sweet Jesus,”]
[“When I see on the cross hung”]
[“Winter wakens all my care,”]
[“I sigh when I sing”]
[“Steadfast cross, among all other”]
[“Lord, thou called me”]
[“All other love is like the moon”]
[“Gold and all this world’s win”]
[“Jesu Christ, my beloved sweet,”]
[“I Sing of a maiden that is matchless,”]
[“Jesus’s wounds so wide”]
[“God, that made all things of naught”]
[“Jesu, my love, my joy, my rest,”]
[“God be in my heed”]
PART THREE: PSALM TRANSLATIONS OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: THE BIBLE AS ART
Thomas Sternhold (1500–1549) and John Hopkins (d. 1570)
Psalm 3—Domine quid multiplicati.
Psalm 70—Deus in adiutorium.
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503–1542)
Psalm 38—Domine ne in furore tuo.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547)
Psalm 55
Anne Askew (Ayscough) (1521–1546)
The voice of Anne Askewe out of the 54. Psalme of David, called Deus in nomine tuo.
Anne Lok (C. 1530–After 1590)
A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in Maner of a Paraphrase upon the 51 Psalme of Dauid.
George Gascoigne (C. 1535–1577)
The introduction to the Psalme of De profundis.
Gascoignes De profundis.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) and Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621)
Psalm 13—Usquequo, Domine?
Psalm 43—Judica me, Deus
Psalm 111—Confitebor tibi
Psalm 117—Laudate Dominum
Psalm 139—Domine, probasti
Psalm 142—Voce mea ad Dominum
George Herbert (1593–1633)
The 23 Psalme
John Milton (1608–1674)
Psalm 88
Richard Crashaw (1613–1649)
Psalme 23
The Bay Psalm Book (1640)
Psalm 141
PART FOUR: THE FLOURISHING OF THE DEVOTIONAL LYRIC IN THE POST-REFORMATION ERA
John Skelton (C. 1460–1529)
A Prayer to the Father of Heauen
William Baldwin (1515–1563?)
Christ my Beloved
Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
A songe made by her Majestie and songe before her at her cominge from white hall to Powles through Fleete streete in Anno domini 1588. Songe in December after the scatteringe of the Spanishe Navy.
Richard Stanihurst (1545–1618)
A Prayer to the Trinitie
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
from Amoretti
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628)
from Calica
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
from Certaine Sonets
Robert Southwell (1561–1595)
Christs bloody sweate
A childe my Choyce
The Burning Babe
William Alabaster (1567–1640)
A Divine Sonnet
Upon the Ensigns of Christ’s Crucifying: The Sponge
The Epiphany
A Sonnet on the Resurrection
Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
1 [“Avthor of light, revive my dying spright,”]
9 [“Most sweet and pleasing are thy wayes O God,”]
Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645)
from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum Lines 265-328
John Donne (1572–1631)
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward.
A Hymne to God the Father
Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse.
from Holy Sonnets (1635 numbering)
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
To Heaven
A Hymne to God the Father
Sir John Beaumont (1583–1627)
In Desolation
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649)
from Flowres of Sion
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
To His Saviour. The New yeers Gift.
His Prayer for Absolution.
To God. [“Lord, I am like to Misletoe,”]
To God. [“Do with me, God! As Thou didst deal with Iohn,”]
His Ejaculation to God.
To God. [“I’le come, I’le creep, (though Thou dost threat)”]
His Wish to God.
Francis Quarles (1592–1644)
from Divine Fancies
from Emblemes, Book Five
George Herbert (1593–1633)
The Altar
The Reprisall
Good Friday
The Quidditie
Deniall
Iesu
Love-joy
The Pulley
A true Hymne
Love (III)
Christopher Harvey (1597–1663)
Confusion
The Sabbath. Or Lords day.
Invitation.
Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600–c. 1678)
On the Death of Our Lord
Thomas Washbourne (1606–1687)
Upon Divine Love
John Milton (1608–1674)
Sonnet 7—On His Being Arrived at the Age of 23.
Sonnet 18—On the late Massacher in Piemont
Sonnet 19—On His Blindness
Upon the Circumcision
from Paradise Lost Book 3, lines I-55
William Cartwright (1611–1643)
Confession
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672)
Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632.
Richard Crashaw (1613–1649)
The Authors Motto
On the still surviving Marks of our Saviour’s Wounds.
To our Lord, upon the Water made Wine.
Our Lord in His Circumcision to His Father.
On the wounds of our crucified Lord.
On our crucified Lord, naked and bloody.
A Song of divine Love.
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
The Coronet
Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
Distraction
The Pursuite
Unprofitableness
The Night
The Book
Mary Carey (C. 1609–C. 1681)
Written by me at the death of my 4th son, and 5th Child, Peregrine Payler
Lancelot Addison (1632–1703)
The Penitential Declaration
A Sigh of Penitential Love; after any Fall
Good-Friday
Katherine Philips (1632–1664)
A Prayer
An Collins (fl. 1653)
Another Song.
Eldred Revett (fl. 1657)
Prayer
Julia Palmer (C. 1637–C. 1718)
from Centuries 2.35—The soull under the distempers of its body releives
itself, by eyeing its future glory, and freedome.
Thomas Traherne (C. 1637–1674)
The Rapture.
The Person.
Love.
Desire.
The Return.
Edward Taylor (1642–1729)
from Preparatory Meditations
Huswifery
PART FIVE: THE POETIC SUBLIME: THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Hymns of the Long Eighteenth Century
Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737)
Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
Jupiter Hammon (1711–C. 1806)
John Henry Newton (1725–1807)
William Cowper (1731–1800)
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847)
Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
The Universal Prayer
Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
from Jubilate Agno
William Blake (1757–1827)
The Divine Image
from Milton: A Poem Preface
from The Gates of Paradise To The Accuser who is The God of This World
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
My Baptismal Birthday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802–1892)
Grace
The Rhodora
Gerald Griffin (1803–1840)
To the Blessed Virgin Mary
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
A Child’s Thought of God
Bereavement
The Soul’s Expression
Comfort
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
My Cathedral
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
from In Memoriam A.H.H.
Charles Harpur (1813–1868)
How Full of God
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
49 [“I never lost as much but twice,”]
193 [“I shall know why—when Time is over—”]
249 [“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”]
437 [“Prayer is the little implement”]
487 [“You love the Lord—you cannot see—”]
564 [“My period had come for Prayer—”]
754 [“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—”]
881 [“I’ve none to tell me to but Thee”]
1461 [“‘Heavenly Father’—take to thee”]
1594 [“Immured in Heaven!”]
1751 [“There comes an hour when begging stops,”]
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
A Better Resurrection
[Lord, dost Thou look on me]
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
\'AΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι
The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
God’s Grandeur
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Spring
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
The Lantern Out of Doors
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
To what serves Mortal Beauty?
Carrion Comfort
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
E Tenebris
Francis Adams (1862–1893)
Prayer
PART SIX: THE DEVOTIONAL LYRIC IN THE MODERN ERA
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
A Prayer on Going into My House
A Prayer for Old Age
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
A Prayer in Spring
Bereft
[Forgive, O Lord]
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Sunday
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
The Lake Isle
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
By Disposition of Angels
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Ash Wednesday
e. e. cummings (1894–1962)
i thank You God for most this amazing
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
Georgia Dusk
Hart Crane (1899–1932)
Lachrymae Christi
The Hurricane
Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)
Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden
George Oppen (1908–1984)
Psalm
PART SEVEN: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY DEVOTIONAL LYRIC AFTER MODERNISM
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
Anaphora
R. S. Thomas (1913–2000)
Kneeling
Praise
Via Negativa
John Berryman (1914–1972)
Dream Song 28: Snow Line
Eleven Addresses to the Lord
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
from Vision and Prayer
Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
Trappists, Working
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
On the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1942
Helltime
Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus
Donald Justice (1925–2004)
To Satan in Heaven
A. R. Ammons (1926–2001)
Hymn
Hymn IV
James K. Baxter (1926–1972)
from Jerusalem Sonnets
from Autumn Testament
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
Psalm III
Galway Kinnell (1927– )
Prayer
First Communion
Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
In the Deep Museum
Praying to Big Jack
Geoffrey Hill (1932– )
from Lachrimae: Or Seven Tears Figured in Seven Passionate Pavans
Mark Strand (1934– )
Poem After the Seven Last Words
Charles Wright (1935– )
Stone Canyon Nocturne
As the Trains Roll Through, I Remember an Old Poem
Terrestrial Music
The Gospel According to Yours Truly
Hasta la Vista Buckaroo
The Gospel According to Somebody Else
The Gospel According to St. Someone
Charles Simic (1938– )
Prayer
Psalm
To the One Upstairs
Peter Cooley (1940– )
Poem Choosing to Remain Unfinished
Louise Glück (1943– )
Matins [“Forgive me if I say I love you: the powerful”]
Matins [“I see it is with you as with the birches:”]
Matins [“You want to know how I spend my time?”]
Vespers [“More than you love me, very possibly”]
Vespers [“I know what you planned, what you meant to do, teaching me”]
Ira Sadoff (1945– )
Orphans
Jorie Graham (1950– )
Praying (Attempt of May 9 ’03)
Marie Howe (1950– )
Prayer
James Galvin (1951– )
Prayer
Mark Jarman (1952– )
from Questions for Ecclesiastes
from Unholy Sonnets
Alan Shapiro (1952– )
Prayer on the Temple Steps
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (1953– )
Supernatural Love
Scott Cairns (1954– )
The Spiteful Jesus
Nicholas Samaras (1954– )
Benediction
Lucie Brock-Broido (1956– )
The One Theme of Which Everything Else Is a Variation
Amy Gerstler (1956– )
A Non-Christian on Sunday
Jacqueline Osherow (1956– )
from Scattered Psalms
Bruce Beasley (1958– )
Having Read the Holy Spirit’s Wikipedia
Michael Chitwood (1958– )
Here I Am, Lord
Jane Mead (1958– )
Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make
Carl Phillips (1959– )
from The Blue Castrato
Hymn
PART EIGHT: THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DEVOTIONAL LYRIC
Peter Sirr (1960– )
A Few Helpful Hints
Leslie Harrison (1962– )
[dear god I ask]
Olena Kalytiak Davis (1963– )
six apologies, lord
D. A. Powell (1963– )
plague year: comet: arc
End of Days
A. E. Stallings (1968– )
Amateur Iconography: Resurrection
G. C. Waldrep (1968– )
Against the Madness of Crowds
Kevin Prufer (1969– )
Prayer
Apocalyptic Prayer
C. Dale Young (1969– )
Paying Attention
Or Something Like That
Morri Creech (1970– )
Triptych: Christ’s Sermon to God from the Wilderness
Maurice Manning (1970– )
from Bucolics
Paisley Rekdal (1970– )
Dear Lacuna, Dear Lard:
Mary Szybist (1970– )
Hail
Kazim Ali (1971– )
Lostness
Afternoon Prayer
Dear Lantern, Dear Cup
Josh Bell (1971– )
Zombie Sunday (A Short Poetical History of Spring)
Zombie Sunday [“Gentle handed holy father, or whomever, / we have ways of making you talk,”]
Zombie Sunday [“Gentle handed holy father, or whomever, / the stars swing in like buccaneers”]
Katharine Jager (1971– )
Vita Brevis, Ars Longa
Brett Foster (1973– )
Longing, Lenten
Matthea Harvey (1973– )
from Ceiling Unlimited Series
Melissa Range (1973– )
Kermes Red
Gold Leaf
Lampblack
Jericho Brown (1975– )
Prayer of the Backhanded
Malachi Black (1982– )
from Quarantine Vespers
Credits
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