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Bible Defense of Slavery
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

“Imagine Lucifer . . .” First appeared in Poetry
By Jack Spicer

Paradise Lost: Book I
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IV
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IX
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book X
By John Milton

Adam Means Earth*
By Samuel Menashe

A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti

A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Dirge First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas James Merton

A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens

A Hopkins Rumble, 1999 First appeared in Poetry
By John Hazard

A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne

A Hymn to God the Father
By Ben Jonson

A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw

A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Song to David
By Christopher Smart

A Story
By Colette Inez

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick

Aaron
By George Herbert

Adam
By Federico García Lorca

Adam's Prayer First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns

Advent First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Hall

Advent First appeared in Poetry
By Nate Klug

After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell

Agape First appeared in Poetry
By Timothy Murphy

Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
By Edmund Spenser

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon

An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
By Geoffrey Hill

An Auto-da-fé First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning

An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
By Jupiter Hammon

An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton

Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Ark
By Camille T. Dungy

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ash Wednesday
By Louis Untermeyer

At Chartres First appeared in Poetry
By Katy Didden

At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett

At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay

Aubade-Harlem
By Thomas James Merton

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville

“The Vision of Saint Augustine” First appeared in Poetry
By Beverley Bie Brahic

“Your Luck Is About To Change” First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Elizabeth Howe

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

Becune Point First appeared in Poetry
By Derek Walcott

Before You First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Rakosi

Behind the Prytaneum First appeared in Poetry
By T. Zachary Cotler

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Blessed Assurance
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

brothers
By Lucille Clifton

Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Chekhov’s “The Student” (April, 1894)
By Brian Culhane

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christ’s Nativity
By Henry Vaughan

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Christmas Tree Lots First appeared in Poetry
By Chris Green

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Conches on Christmas First appeared in Poetry
By Mike Chasar

crossing into canaan First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis

Deed
By Josephine Miles

Descending Theology: The Resurrection First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Karr

Disgraceland First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Karr

Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw

Done is a Battle
By William Dunbar

Dreamer
By Primus St. John

Duns Scotus's Oxford
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Eden First appeared in Poetry
By Ina Rousseau

Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth

Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
By Aphra Behn

Eve's Design First appeared in Poetry
By Moira Linehan

far memory
By Lucille Clifton

For Christmas Day
By Charles Wesley

For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles Wesley

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

Forest Dwellers
By R. S. Thomas

Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
By Emily Dickinson

Four Fibs
By A.E. Stallings

Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey

Hail First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Szybist

He Lit a Fire with Icicles First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Hedgehog
By Paul Muldoon

Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira

Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

Huswifery
By Edward Taylor

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne

Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hymn: Thou Hidden Love of God
By John Wesley

I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
By Edward Taylor

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson

I Heard an Angel
By William Blake

I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

Illuminated Page First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer O'Grady

In Church
By Peter Balakian

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
By Richard Crashaw

Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
By William Wordsworth

Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake

Iraqi Boy First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Arnold

jesus knew
By Nick Flynn

Jesus Returns
By Cynthia Macdonald

Jordan (I)
By George Herbert

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Last Lines
By Anne Brontë

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Loves
By Scott Cairns

Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary

Magnificat First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

Man
By George Herbert

Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall

Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Milton by Firelight
By Gary Snyder

Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Morning Hymn
By Charles Wesley

Mount Angel First appeared in Poetry
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton

My Madonna
By Robert W. Service

Neo-Thomist Poem
By Ernest M. Hemingway

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

Noah’s Wife First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

On Being Brought from Africa to America
By Phillis Wheatley

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me First appeared in Poetry
By John Ciardi

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Original Sin
By Robinson Jeffers

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Painting over Aya Sofia First appeared in Poetry
By Caleb Klaces

Paradise Lost: Book I (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book XI (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book XII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book II (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
By John Milton

Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio

Peace
By Henry Vaughan

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill

Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas

Prayer
By Marin Sorescu

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Re-Incarnation
By Eva Gore-Booth

Reading Saint John of the Cross First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Kelly-DeWitt

Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling

Religious Instruction
By Mina Loy

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

Roosters
By Elizabeth Bishop

Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero

Saints’ Logic
By Linda Gregerson

Satire III
By John Donne

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Sin (I)
By George Herbert

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Slavery
By Hannah More

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
By Emily Dickinson

Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree First appeared in Poetry
By George Starbuck

Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont
By John Milton

Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Stomackes First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Sunday Morning First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Sunt Leones
By Stevie Smith

Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill

Teodoro Luna Confesses After Years to His Brother, Anselmo the Priest, Who Is Required to Understand, But Who Understands Anyway, More Than People Think
By Alberto Ríos

Thamar and Amnon
By Federico García Lorca

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrrection
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill First appeared in Poetry
By Hayden Carruth

The Airy Christ
By Stevie Smith

The Altar
By George Herbert

The Animals
By Josephine Jacobsen

The Antagonism
By Thom Gunn

The Ballad of God-Makers
By G. K. Chesterton

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The British Church
By George Herbert

The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ

The Calm
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Convert
By G. K. Chesterton

The Coronet
By Andrew Marvell

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Eternal Rebel
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Funeral
By John Donne

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Hold-fast
By George Herbert

The House of Rest
By Julia Ward Howe

The Incarnate
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Kiss
By W. S. Di Piero

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Lamb
By William Blake

from the Last Canto of Paradiso First appeared in Poetry
By Dante Alighieri

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The New Religion
By Chris Abani

The Nuns Assist at Childbirth First appeared in Poetry
By Barbara Howes

The Other Place First appeared in Poetry
By William Logan

The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Preface
By Edward Taylor

The Prodigal Son
By James Weldon Johnson

The Pulley
By George Herbert

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Quip
By George Herbert

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Relic
By John Donne

The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Song of the Birds First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

from The Testament of John Lydgate
By John Lydgate

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

The Transfiguration
By Edwin Muir

from The Triumph of Love
By Geoffrey Hill

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Virgin
By William Wordsworth

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Widow of Naim
By Thomas James Merton

The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
By Janet McCann

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan

To Heaven
By Ben Jonson

To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber) First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Torcello First appeared in Poetry
By Catherine Sasanov

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trust
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Update on the Last Judgment First appeared in Poetry
By Ellen Hinsey

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
By Edward Taylor

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Veni, Creator Spiritus
By John Dryden

Vision
By Marjorie Pickthall

What are the Days?
By Colette Inez

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez