CONTENTS.

LIST OF AUTHORS AND POEMS

THE POET .

XV

I

Subjective Poems, in which the Poet writes of himself, his Mission, Companion-

ships, and Hopes.

THE POET AND NATURE .

29

The Poet's Observations on Nature (Mountains, Flowers, Birds, the Stars, the

Rainbow, the Sea) especially as the Work of God uttering his Praise.

THE POET AS A NARRATOR

71

Narrative and Descriptive Poems, and Poems based upon Historical Characters and

Events.

Poems relating to Palestine and the East, and to Events in sacred History.

THE POET CONTEMPLATES TIMES AND SEASONS. .

Poems on the Year, the New Year, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Harvest, Winter,

Thanksgiving, Christmas, the Day, Morning, Noontide, Evening, Night.

245

THE POET CONTEMPLATES LIFE AND EXPERIENCE.

301

Life in general, Life a Pilgrimage, Duty, Sin, Penitence, Forgiveness, Conversion,

Reason, Faith and Doubt, Hope, Peace, Love to God and Man, Humility, the Min-

istry, Missions, the Church Militant, Christian Fellowship, Thankfulness.

THE DRAMATIST'S VIEW OF LIFE AND DUTY'

393

Extracts indicating the Nature of the Moral Lessons to be derived from the Writings

of Shakespeare.

THE POET CONTEMPLATFS THE FAMILY LIFE.

The Family, Home, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Childhood, Age.

407

Extracts from the several Books of "Paradise Lost," by which the story of the

Poem is told.

Poems on the Holy Trinity, the Character of God the Father, and the Relations of

Man to him.

Poems regarding John the Baptist, the Magians, and the Birth of Jesus.

709

738

760

791

THE POET CONTEMPLATES THE HOLY SPIRIT .

Poems on the Mission of the Comforter appropriate to Whitsunday.

799

THE POET IN THE FACE OF TRIAL AND SORROW..

817

Poems of Comfort in view of Sorrow and Trial.

THE POET IN VIEW OF DEATH AND THE JUDGMENT.

. 851

The Departure, the Funeral, the Resurrection, the Judgment.

THE POET'S VISION OF HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE .

909

Extracts from Dante's "Divina Commedia."

THE POET IN VIEW OF HEAVEN. .

931

Eternity, the Church Triumphant, Angels, Heaven the Home of the Blest.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

989

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Biographical items are to be found on the pages indicated by the numbers connected with the names of the authors.