The Soul in Paraphrase: A Treasury of Classic Devotional Poems (Leland Ryken)

Editor’s Introduction

1. Caedmon’s Hymn (Caedmon)
2. The Dream of the Rood (Anonymous)
3. O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be (Abelard)
4. Canticle of the Sun (St. Francis)
5. Sunset on Calvary (Anonymous)
6. I Sing of a Maiden (Anonymous)
7. Hand in Hand We Shall Take (Anonymous)
8. Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest but to Dust (Sidney)
9. Most Glorious Lord of Life (Spenser)
10. O Gracious Shepherd (Constable)
11. When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes (Shakespeare)
12. That Time of Year Thou Mayest in Me Behold (Shakespeare)
13. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit Impediments (Shakespeare)
14. Poor Soul, the Center of My Sinful Earth (Shakespeare)
15. The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained (Shakespeare)
16. Yet If His Majesty (Anonymous)
17. Thou Hast Made Me, and Shall Thy Work Decay? (Donne)
18. As Due by Many Titles I Resign (Donne)
19. Oh My Black Soul (Donne)
20. This Is My Play’s Last Scene (Donne)
21. At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners (Donne)
22. Death, Be Not Proud (Donne)
23. Spit in My Face, You Jews (Donne)
24. Batter My Heart (Donne)
25. Wilt Thou Love God as He Thee? (Donne)
26. A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior (Jonson)
27. Aaron (Herbert)
28. Redemption (Herbert)
29. Prayer (Herbert)
30. Virtue (Herbert)
31. The Pulley (Herbert)
32. The Agony (Herbert)
33. Love  (Herbert)
34. The Twenty-Third Psalm (Herbert)
35. The Elixir (Herbert)
36. Easter (Herbert)
37. The Collar (Herbert)
38. Sunday (Herbert)
39. He Bore Our Griefs (Revius)
40. His Savior’s Words, Going to the Cross (Herrick)
41. His Litany to the Holy Spirit (Herrick)
42. On Time (Milton)
43. How Soon Hath Time  (Milton)
44. Lady That in the Prime of Earliest Youth (Milton)
45. When Faith and Love (Milton)
46. Avenge, O Lord, Thy Slaughtered Saints (Milton)
47. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (Milton)
48. Methought I Saw My Late Espouséd Saint (Milton)
49. Greatly Instructed I Shall Hence Depart (Milton)
50. Verses upon the Burning of our House (Bradstreet)
51. Poverty (Traherne)
52. Peace (Vaughan)
53. Easter Hymn (Vaughan)
54. The Dawning (Vaughan)
55. The Waterfall (Vaughan)
56. They Are All Gone into the World of Light (Vaughan)
57. When in Mid-Air, the Golden Trump Shall Sound (Dryden)
58. Veni, Creator Spiritus [“Come, Creator Spirit”] (Dryden)
59. The Spacious Firmament on High (Addison)
60. When Rising from the Bed of Death (Addison)
61. The Dying Christian to His Soul (Pope)
62. Huswifery (Taylor)
63. Infinity, When All Things It Beheld (Taylor)
64. The Resignation (Chatterton)
65. The Lamb (Blake)
66. And Did Those Feet (Blake)
67. The Destruction of Sennacherib (Byron)
68. Lines Written in Early Spring (Wordsworth)
69. Earth Has Not Anything to Show More Fair (Wordsworth)
70. To a Waterfowl (Bryant)
71. The Snow-Storm (Emerson)
72. Strong Son of God, Immortal Love (Tennyson)
73. Crossing the Bar (Tennyson)
74. In the Bleak Midwinter (Rossetti)
75. Good Friday (Rossetti)
76. Up-Hill (Rossetti)
77. Pied Beauty (Hopkins)
78. Spring (Hopkins)
79. The Windhover (Hopkins)
80. God’s Grandeur (Hopkins)
81. O World Invisible, We View Thee (Thompson)
82. A Prayer in Spring (Frost)
83. Journey of the Magi (Eliot)
84. Two Poems on Death and Immortality (Dickinson)
85. Nature as God’s Revelation (Lanier and Coleridge)
86. Sunday Worship (Smart and Coleridge)
87. Christmas Day (Anonymous and Milton)
88. Nature as a Religious Experience (Wordsworth)
89. The Consolations of Providence (Milton and Shakespeare)
90. Certainty of Faith (Brontë and Dickinson)
91. Our Only Secure Home (Anonymous)

Biographical Notes
Sources and Acknowledgments
Scripture Index
Person Index