THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

    I Home: Friendship
    II Love
   III Sorrow and Consolation
    IV The Higher Life
     V Nature
    VI Fancy Sentiment
   VII Descriptive: Narrative
  VIII National Spirit
    IX Tragedy: Humor
     X Poetical Quotations

THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED

Editor-in-Chief

BLISS CARMAN

Associate Editors

John Vance Cheney
Charles G.D. Roberts
Charles F. Richardson
Francis H. Stoddard

Managing Editor

John R. Howard

1904

The World's Best Poetry

Vol. IV

THE HIGHER LIFE

RELIGION AND POETRY
By
WASHINGTON GLADDEN

NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS.

I.

American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyrightare used by the courteous permission of the owners,—either thepublishers named in the following list or the authors or theirrepresentatives in the subsequent one,—who reserve all their rights.So far as practicable, permission has been secured also for poems outof copyright.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

Messrs. D. APPLETON & CO., New York.—W.G. Bryant: "The Future
Life."

The ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, Cincinnati.—W.D. Gallagher: "The
Laborer."

Messrs. T.Y. CROWELL & CO., New York.—S.K. Bolton: "Her Creed."

Messrs. E.P. DUTTON & CO., New York.—Ph. Brooks: "O Little Town of
Bethlehem;" E. Sears: "The Angel's Song."

Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston.—Alice Cary: "My Creed;"
Phoebe Cary: "Nearer Home;" J.F. Clarke: "The Caliph and Satan,"
"Cana;" R.W. Emerson: "Brahma," "Good-bye," "The Problem;" Louise
I. Guiney: "Tryste Noël;" J. Hay: "Religion and Doctrine;" C.W.
Holmes: "The Living Temple;" H.W. Longfellow: "King Robert of
Sicily," "Ladder of St. Augustine," "Psalm of Life," "Santa Filomena,"
"Sifting of Peter," "Song of the Silent Land," "To-morrow;" S.
Longfellow: "Vesper Hymn;" J.R. Lowell: "Vision of Sir Launfal;"
Frances P.L. Mace: "Only Waiting;" Caroline A.B. Mason: "The
Voyage;" T. Parker: "The Higher Good," "The Way, the Truth, and
the Life;" Eliza Scudder: "The Love of God," "Vesper Hymn;" E.C.
Stedman: "The Undiscovered Country;" Harriet B. Stowe: "Knocking,
Ever Knocking," "The Other World;" J. Very: "Life," "The Spirit
Land;" J.G. Whittier: "The Eternal Goodness," "The Meeting," "The
Two Angels," "The Two Rabbis;" Sarah C. Woolsey: "When."

The J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Philadelphia.—Margaret J. Preston:
"Myrrh-Bearers."

Messrs. LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Boston.—J.W. Chadwick: "The Rise of
Man;" Emily Dickinson: "Found Wanting," "Heaven."

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