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• Star-Mist

  From “Stars”
  MORE and more stars! behold yon hazy arch
  Spanning the vault on high, …

  John Keble

• The Ministry of Angels

  From “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto 8.
  AND is there care in heaven? And is there love
  In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, …

  Edmund Spenser

• Saint Agnes

  Deep on the convent-roof the snows
  Are sparkling to the moon:
  My breath to heaven like vapor goes: …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Praise of the Celestial Country

  From the Latin by John Mason Neale
  [The poem De Contemptu Mundi was written by Bernard de Morlaix, Monk of Cluni. The translation following is of a portion of the poem distinguished by the sub-title “Laus Patriæ Cœlestis.”]
  THE WORLD is very evil, …

  Bernard de Morlaix

• Paradise

  O Paradise, O Paradise,
  Who doth not crave for rest,
  Who would not seek the happy land …

  Frederick William Faber

• Inscription over the Gate

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Hell: Canto III. …

  Dante Alighieri

• Prayer of Penitents

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Purgatory: Canto XI. …

  Dante Alighieri

• Man’s Free-Will

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Purgatory: Canto XVI. …

  Dante Alighieri

• Fire of Purification

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Purgatory: Canto XXVII. …

  Dante Alighieri

• Sin and Redemption

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Paradise: Canto VII. …

  Dante Alighieri

• The Triumph of Christ

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Paradise: Canto XIV. …

  Dante Alighieri

• The Saints in Glory

  Translated by Henry Francis Cary
  Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
  Paradise: Canto XXXI. …

  Dante Alighieri

• Rus in Urbe

  Poets are singing the whole world over
  Of May in melody, joys for June;
  Dusting their feet in the careless clover, …

  Clement Scott

• The Faun

  A Fragment
  I WILL go out to grass with that old King,
  For I am weary of clothes and cooks. …

  Richard Hovey

• Invocation to Light

  From “Paradise Lost,” Book III.
  HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born!
  Or of the Eternal coeternal beam …

  John Milton

• The Northern Lights

  To claim the Arctic came the sun
  With banners of the burning zone.
  Unrolled upon their airy spars, …

  Benjamin Franklin Taylor

• From the “Hymn to Light”

  SAY, from what golden quivers of the sky
  Do all thy wingèd arrows fly?
  Swiftness and Power by birth are thine: …

  Abraham Cowley

• Morning Song

  Up! quit thy bower! late wears the hour,
  Long have the rooks cawed round the tower;
  O’er flower and tree loud hums the bee, …

  Joanna Baillie

• “Pack clouds away”

  Pack clouds away, and welcome day,
  With night we banish sorrow;
  Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft, …

  Thomas Heywood

• Summer Rain

  Thick lay the dust, uncomfortably white,
  In glaring mimicry of Arab sand.
  The woods and mountains slept in hazy light; …

  Hartley Coleridge

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