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• “The forward violet thus did I chide”

  Sonnet Xcix.
  the FORWARD violet thus did I chide:—
  Sweet thief, whence did thou steal thy sweet that smells, …

  William Shakespeare

• “There is a garden in her face”

  From “An Houre’s Recreation in Musicke,” 1606
  THERE is a garden in her face,
  Where roses and white lilies blow; …

  Anonymous

• Portia’s Picture

  From “The Merchant of Venice,” Act III. Sc. 2.
  FAIR Portia’s counterfeit? What demi-god
  Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes? …

  William Shakespeare

• Song: “The shape alone let others prize”

  The Shape alone let others prize,
  The features of the fair:
  I look for spirit in her eyes, …

  Mark Akenside

• Triumph of Charis

  See the chariot at hand here of Love!
  Wherein my lady rideth!
  Each that draws is a swan, or a dove, …

  Ben Jonson

• Belinda

  From “The Rape of the Lock,” Canto II. ll. 7–18.
  ON her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
  Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore, …

  Alexander Pope

• “Drink to me only with thine eyes”

  From the Greek of Philostratus
  From “The Forest”
  DRINK to me only with thine eyes, …

  Ben Jonson

• A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine

  Long pored Saint Austin o’er the sacred page,
  And doubt and darkness overspread his mind;
  On God’s mysterious being thought the Sage, …

  Anonymous

• Meditations of a Hindu Prince

  All the world over, I wonder, in lands that I never have trod,
  Are the people eternally seeking for the signs and steps of a God?
  Westward across the ocean, and Northward across the snow, …

  Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

• Hymn to Zeus

  Anonymous translation from the Greek
  MOST glorious of all the Undying, many-named, girt round with awe!
  Jove, author of Nature, applying to all things the rudder of law— …

  Cleanthes

• Te Deum Laudamus

  Version of the “American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book” 1
  WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
  All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. …

  Anonymous

• The Universal Prayer

  Father of all! in every age,
  In every clime adored,
  By saint, by savage, and by sage, …

  Alexander Pope

• Ode: “The spacious firmament on high”

  From “The Spectator”
  THE SPACIOUS firmament on high,
  With all the blue ethereal sky, …

  Joseph Addison

• “Lord! when those glorious lights I see”

  Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers
  LORD! when those glorious lights I see
  With which thou hast adorned the skies, …

  George Wither

• Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

  Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star
  In his steep course? So long he seems to pause
  On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc! …

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Hills of the Lord

  God ploughed one day with an earthquake,
  And drove his furrows deep!
  The huddling plains upstarted, …

  William Channing Gannett

• God and Man

  From the “Essay on Man,” Epistles I. and IV.
  LO, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
  Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: …

  Alexander Pope

• Light Shining out of Darkness

  God moves in a mysterious way
  His wonders to perform;
  He plants His footsteps in the sea, …

  William Cowper

• God

  From the Russian by Sir John Bowring
  O THOU eternal One! whose presence bright
  All space doth occupy, all motion guide— …

  Gavrila Derzhavin

• Earth, Ocean, Air

  From “Alastor”; Preface
  “Nondum amabam, et amare amabam, quærebam quid amarem, amans amare.”—Confessions of Saint Augustine.
  EARTH, ocean, air, belovèd brotherhood! …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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