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• “Strong Son of God, immortal Love”

  From “In Memoriam”: Introduction
  STRONG Son of God, immortal Love,
  Whom we, that have not seen thy face, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Epiphany

  “We have seen his star in the east.”
  —MATTHEW ii. 2.
  BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, …

  Reginald Heber

• On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

  This is the month, and this the happy morn,
  Wherein the Son of heaven’s eternal king,
  Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, …

  John Milton

• A Christmas Hymn

  It was the calm and silent night!
  Seven hundred years and fifty-three
  Had Rome been growing up to might, …

  Alfred Domett

• Tryste Noël

  The Ox he openeth wide the Doore
  And from the Snowe he calls her inne,
  And he hath seen her smile therefore, …

  Louise Imogen Guiney

• The Flight into Egypt

  A Ballad
  THERE ’s a legend that ’s told of a gypsy who dwelt
  In the lands where the pyramids be; …

  Francis Sylvester Mahony

• Cana

  Dear Friend! whose presence in the house,
  Whose gracious word benign,
  Could once, at Cana’s wedding feast, …

  James Freeman Clarke

• The Lost Sheep

  (“The Ninety and Nine”)
  THERE were ninety and nine that safely lay
  In the shelter of the fold; …

  Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane

• The Good Shepherd with the Kid

  He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save.
  So rang Tertullian’s sentence, on the side
  Of that unpitying Phrygian Sect which cried: …

  Matthew Arnold

• Two Sayings

  Two sayings of the Holy Scriptures beat
  Like pulses in the Church’s brow and breast;
  And by them we find rest in our unrest, …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Stabat Mater Dolorosa

  From the Latin by Abraham Coles
  STOOD the afflicted mother weeping,
  Near the cross her station keeping …

  Jacopone da Todi

• Myrrh-Bearers

  Three women crept at break of day
  A-grope along the shadowy way
  Where Joseph’s tomb and garden lay. …

  Margaret Junkin Preston

• Litany

  Saviour, when in dust to Thee
  Low we bend the adoring knee;
  When, repentant, to the skies …

  Sir Robert Grant

• The Christ

  He might have reared a palace at a word,
  Who sometimes had not where to lay His head.
  Time was when He who nourished crowds with bread, …

  Richard Chenevix Trench

• “Abide with me”

  Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide;
  The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide!
  When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, …

  Henry Francis Lyte

• The Disciples after the Ascension

  He is gone! beyond the skies,
  A cloud receives him from our eyes:
  Gone beyond the highest height …

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

• Wrestling Jacob

  First Part
  come, O thou Traveller unknown,
  Whom still I hold, but cannot see; …

  Charles Wesley

• The Conversion of Saint Paul

  The Midday sun, with fiercest glare,
  Broods over the hazy, twinkling air;
  Along the level sand …

  John Keble

• “Rock of Ages”

  “Such hymns are never forgotten. They cling to us through our whole life. We carry them with us upon our journey. We sing them in the forest. The workman follows the plough with sacred songs. Children catch them, and singing only for the joy it gives them now, are yet laying up for all their life…

  Edward H. Rice

• “Art thou weary?”

  From the Latin by John Mason Neale
  ART thou weary, art thou languid,
  Art thou sore distressed? …

  Saint Stephen the Sabaite

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