| Lascelles Abercrombie. b. 1881. |
Emblems of Love |
| William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh.
1824–1911. |
Sonnets |
| Anonymous. |
Amergin |
| Quia Amore Langueo |
| At the Feet of Isis |
| A Ballade of the Centre |
| Matthew Arnold. 1822–1888. |
Progress |
| From ‘The Buried Life’ |
| From ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’ |
| From ‘Empedocles on Aetna’ |
| Sir Edwin Arnold. 1832–1904. |
From ‘The Light of Asia’ |
| Philip James Bailey. 1816–1902. |
Knowledge |
| From ‘The Mystic’ |
| From ‘Festus’ |
| Elsa Barker. |
He who knows Love |
| The Slumberer |
| The Mystic Rose |
| Microprosopos |
| George Barlow. 1847–1913. |
The Immortal and the Mortal |
| Jane Barlow. b. 1857. |
Beyond all Shores and Seas |
| One and All |
| Clifford Bax. b. 1886. |
The Meaning of Man |
| Henry Charles Beeching. |
The Tree of Life |
| Arthur Christopher Benson. b. 1862. |
Prayer |
| Robert Hugh Benson. 1871–1914. |
The Teresian Contemplative |
| From ‘Christian Evidences’ |
| John Stuart Blackie. 1809–1895. |
All things are full of God |
| Trimurti |
| William Blake. 1757–1827. |
The Everlasting Gospel |
| The Divine Image |
| Night |
| Broken Love |
| The Crystal Cabinet |
| Auguries of Innocence |
| To Thomas Butts |
| From ‘Milton’ |
| From ‘Jerusalem’ |
| Francis William Bourdillon. b. 1852. |
The Chantry of the Cherubim |
| Fred. G. Bowles. |
Resurrection |
| An Insurgent of Art |
| Emily Brontë. 1819–1848. |
The Visionary |
| Last Lines |
| Robert Browning. 1812–1889. |
From ‘Easter Day’ |
| Thomas Edward Brown. 1830–1897. |
Pain |
| My Garden |
| Disguises |
| Land, Ho! |
| Specula |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1806–1861. |
Chorus of Eden Spirits |
| From ‘The Soul’s Travelling’ |
| Human Life’s Mystery |
| From ‘Aurora Leigh’ |
| Robert Browning. 1812–1889. |
From ‘Pauline’ |
| From ‘Paracelsus’ |
| From ‘Saul’ |
| Abt Vogler |
| Rabbi Ben Ezra |
| Robert Buchanan. 1841–1901. |
The Tree of Life |
| From ‘The City of Dream’ |
| From ‘The City of Dream’ |
| Alice Mary Buckton. |
The Great Response |
| Before the Dawn |
| Anna Bunston (Mrs. De Bary). |
A Basque Peasant returning from Church |
| A Great Mystery |
| ‘O Sovereign Lord, Thou Lover of Men’s Souls!’ |
| Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree |
| John Byrom. 1691–1763. |
A Poetical Version of a Letter from Facob Behmen |
| Bliss Carman. b. 1861. |
Veni Creator |
| A Creature Catechism |
| On Love |
| Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1840–1900. |
From ‘Liber Amoris’ |
| Edward Carpenter. b. 1844. |
By the Shore |
| Love’s Vision |
| Over the Great City |
| So Thin a Veil |
| The World-Spirit |
| Edward Caswall. 1814–1878. |
The Order of Pure Intuition |
| Madison Julius Cawein. 1865–1914. |
Sibylline |
| The Watcher on the Tower |
| Attainment |
| Nora Chesson. 1871–1906. |
Hertha |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton. b. 1874. |
The Holy of Holies |
| Wilfred Rowland Mary Childe. b. 1890. |
Foreword |
| Turris Eburnea |
| Amy K. Clarke. |
‘Vision of Him’ |
| Ellen Mary Clerke. 1840–1906. |
The Building and Pinnacle of the Temple |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772–1834. |
From ‘Religious Musings’ |
| From ‘Dejection: an Ode’ |
| Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. 1861–1907. |
‘He came unto His own, and His own received Him not’ |
| Good Friday in my Heart |
| After St. Augustine |
| Henry Constable. ?1562–?1613. |
To the Blessed Sacrament |
| James H. Cousins. |
The Quest |
| Vision |
| William Cowper. 1731–1800. |
From ‘The Task’ |
| Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik. 1826–1887. |
The Human Temple |
| Christopher Pearse Cranch. 1813–1892. |
So far, so near |
| From ‘Ormuzd and Abriman’ |
| Richard Crashaw. ?1613–1649. |
The Recommendation |
| To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus |
| A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa |
| The Flaming Heart |
| A Song |
| Prayer |
| Arthur Shearly Cripps. b. 1869. |
Missa Viatoris |
| An Easter Hymn |
| The Black Christ |
| From ‘The Death of St. Francis’ |
| Aleister Crowley. |
The Quest |
| The Neophyte |
| The Rose and the Cross |
| Victor James Daley. 1858–1905. |
The Voice of the Soul |
| William James Dawson. b. 1854. |
Inspirations |
| Margaret Deland. b. 1857. |
Life |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere. 1814–1902. |
Implicit Faith |
| Ella Dietz. |
Emanation |
| The King’s Daughter |
| Richard Watson Dixon. 1833–1900. |
Rapture: An Ode |
| Digby Mackworth Dolben. 1848–1867. |
‘Strange, all-absorbing Love’ |
| Flowers for the Altar |
| John Donne. 1573–1631. |
Sonnet |
| From ‘The Crosse’ |
| Resurrection, imperfect |
| Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward |
| A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany |
| Edward Dowden. 1843–1913. |
By the Window |
| Awakening |
| Communion |
| A New Hymn for Solitude |
| The Secret of the Universe |
| The Initiation |
| Love’s Lord |
| Augusta Theodosia Drane. 1823–1894. |
Forgotten among the Lilies |
| What the Soul Desires |
| Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (Robinson-Darmesteter). b. 1857. |
Rhythm |
| The Idea |
| Antiphon to the Holy Spirit |
| John Charles Earle. |
Onward and Upward |
| ‘Lo, I am with you always’ |
| ‘Found of them that sought Him not’ |
| Bodily Extension |
| Edwin J. Ellis. |
Preface to ‘Fate in Arcadia’ |
| The Wanderer |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803–1882. |
The Problem |
| Ode to Beauty |
| Brahma |
| Worship |
| Frederick William Faber. 1814–1863. |
From ‘The Eternal Word’ |
| Michael Field. |
Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| ‘Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod’ |
| Darrell Figgis. |
Slaibh Mor |
| Phineas Fletcher. 1580–1650. |
The Divine Lover |
| Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler
(Mrs. Edward Liddell). b. 1848. |
In Summer Fields |
| Harold E. Goad. |
Spring’s Sacrament |
| Eva Gore-Booth. |
The Quest |
| Harvest |
| Form |
| Edmund Gosse. b. 1849. |
The Tide of Love |
| Old and New |
| John Gray. b. 1893. |
The Tree of Knowledge |
| On the Holy Trinity |
| Dora Greenwell. 1821–1882. |
The Blade of Grass |
| Alfred Gurney. |
The New World |
| Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King. b. 1840. |
The Bride Reluctant |
| From ‘The Disciples’ |
| Christopher Harvey. 1597–1663. |
The Nativity |
| Frances Ridley Havergal. 1836–1879. |
From ‘The Thoughts of God’ |
| Robert Stephen Hawker. 1803–1875. |
Aishah Shechinah |
| From ‘The Quest of the Sangraal’ |
| William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903. |
I am the Reaper |
| George Herbert. 1593–1633. |
Easter Song |
| Affliction |
| Man |
| Dialogue |
| Clasping of Hands |
| The Pulley |
| The Elixer |
| The Collar |
| Robert Herrick. 1591–1674. |
Eternitie |
| Emily Henrietta Hickey. b. 1845. |
‘The Greatest of these is Charity’ |
| Katherine Tynan Hinkson. b. 1861. |
The Beloved |
| The Flying Wheel |
| Horace Holley. |
The Stricken King |
| Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes. 1850–1906. |
The Creed of My Heart |
| Nirvana |
| La Vie Profonde |
| The God Within |
| Paul Hookham. |
A Meditation |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1844–1889. |
The Habit of Perfection |
| God’s Grandeur |
| Mary Mother of Divine Grace, compared to the Air we breathe |
| Gertrude M. Hort. |
The Paradox |
| Thanksgiving |
| Laurence Housman. b. 1865. |
The Continuing City |
| The Mystery of the Incarnation |
| Love, the Tempter |
| A Prayer for the Healing of the Wounds of Christ |
| Jean Ingelow. 1830–1897. |
From ‘Scholar and Carpenter’ |
| Archibald Lampman. 1861–1899. |
The Clearer Self |
| Peccavi, Domine |
| Richard Le Gallienne. b. 1866. |
The Second Crucifixion |
| Ruth Temple Lindsay. |
The Hunters |
| Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. 1835–1911. |
From ‘Sîva’ |
| George Mac Donald. 1824–1905. |
A Prayer for the Past |
| Approaches |
| De Profundis |
| Lost and Found |
| James Clarence Mangan. 1803–1849. |
S. Patrick’s Hymn before Tara |
| Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678. |
On a Drop of Dew |
| The Coronet |
| John Masefield. |
The Ballad of Sir Bors |
| The Seekers |
| From ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ |
| Eugene Mason. b. 1862. |
Apparition |
| George Meredith. 1828–1909. |
Outer and Inner |
| Alice Meynell. b. 1847. |
To a Daisy |
| Via, et Veritas, et Vita |
| The Unknown God |
| In Portugal, 1912 |
| Christ in the Universe |
| Richard Monckton Milnes,
Lord Houghton. 1809–1885. |
The Sayings of Rabia |
| From ‘Ghazeles’ |
| Susan Mitchell. |
The Living Chalice |
| Immortality |
| Love’s Mendicant |
| Harold Monro. b. 1879. |
God |
| Sir Lewis Morris. 1833–1907. |
A Heathen Hymn |
| A New Orphic Hymn |
| John Spencer Muirhead. |
Quiet |
| Frederick William Henry Myers. 1843–1901. |
Sunrise |
| A Cosmic Outlook |
| From ‘Saint Paul’ |
| A Last Appeal |
| Sarojini Nayadu. |
The Soul’s Prayer |
| In Salutation to the Eternal Peace |
| To a Buddha seated on a Lotus |
| Sir Henry Newbolt. b. 1862. |
The Final Mystery |
| John Henry, Cardinal Newman. 1801–1890. |
Melchizedek |
| From ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ |
| The Pillar of the Cloud |
| Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel. 1834–1894. |
From ‘Pan’ |
| From ‘De Profundis’ |
| Alfred Noyes. b. 1880. |
The Loom of Years |
| Art, the Herald |
| The Paradox |
| Song |
| The Two Worlds |
| Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy.
1844–1881. |
The Lover |
| En Soph |
| Henry Nutcombe Oxenham. 1819–1888. |
The Child-Christ on the Cross |
| John Oxenham. |
Everymaid |
| Francis Turner Palgrave. 1825–1897. |
The City of God |
| Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore. 1823–1896. |
Life of Life |
| Vesica Piscis |
| Sponsa Dei |
| To the Body |
| Joseph Mary Plunkett. 1887–1916. |
I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red |
| I see His Blood upon the Rose |
| Edgar Allan Poe. 1809–1849. |
The Goddess’s Song from ‘Al Aaraaf’ |
| Alexander Pope. 1688–1744. |
From ‘An Essay on Man’ |
| May Probyn. |
The Beloved |
| Francis Quarles. 1592–1644. |
Christ and Our Selves |
| My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the lilies |
| James Rhoades. b. 1841. |
O Soul of Mine! |
| From ‘Out of the Silence’ |
| Sir James Rennell Rodd. b. 1858. |
From ‘In Excelsis’ |
| Richard Rolle of Hampole. 1290?–1349. |
Love is Life |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1828–1882. |
The Sea-Limits |
| The Monochord |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1830–1894. |
Hymn, after Gabriele Rossetti |
| After Communion |
| George William Russell (A.E.). b. 1867. |
Star Teachers |
| Desire |
| The City |
| Krishna |
| Unity |
| Reconciliation |
| George Santayana. b. 1863. |
‘O World, thou choosest not’ |
| ‘O Martyred Spirit’ |
| William Bell Scott. 1812–1890. |
Pebbles in the Stream |
| From ‘The Year of the World’ |
| William Sharp. 1856–1902. |
The Valley of Silence |
| Desire |
| The White Peace |
| The Rose of Flame |
| The Mystic’s Prayer |
| Triad |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792–1822. |
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty |
| From ‘Adonais’ |
| R. A. Eric Shepherd. |
Intimations |
| Dora Sigerson Shorter. b. 1866. |
I am the World |
| Robert Southwell. ?1561–1595. |
I dye alive |
| Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter |
| James Stephens. b. 1882. |
The Seeker |
| The Fullness of Time |
| The Breath of Life |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1837–1909. |
A Nympholept |
| Hertha |
| Joshua Sylvester. 1563–1618. |
The Father |
| John Addington Symonds. 1840–1893. |
The Vanishing Point |
| The Prism of Life |
| Adventante Deo |
| An Invocation |
| Arthur Symons. b. 1865. |
The Ecstasy |
| Indian Meditation |
| The Turning Dervish |
| John Bannister Tabb. 1845–1909. |
The Life-tide |
| Communion |
| An Interpreter |
| Christ and the Pagan |
| All in All |
| Rachel Annand Taylor. b. 1876. |
The Immortal Hour |
| The Night Obscure of the Soul |
| The Question |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809–1892. |
St. Agnes’ Eve |
| Sir Galahad |
| The Higher Pantheism |
| ‘Flower in the crannied wall’ |
| From ‘In Memoriam’ |
| From ‘The Holy Grail’ |
| The Human Cry |
| From ‘The Ancient Sage’ |
| Edith Matilda Thomas. b. 1854. |
Patmos |
| Spirit to Spirit |
| Francis Thompson. 1859–1907. |
The Hound of Heaven |
| From ‘The Mistress of Vision’ |
| Orient Ode |
| Assumpta Mariam |
| The Veteran of Heaven |
| Desiderium Indesideratum |
| The Kingdom of God |
| Thomas Traherne. ?1636–1674. |
Wonder |
| The Vision |
| The Rapture |
| Dumbness |
| My Spirit |
| Amendment |
| The Anticipation |
| Love |
| An Hymn upon St. Bartholomew’s Day |
| Richard Chenevix Trench,
Archbishop of Dublin. 1807–1886. |
‘If there had anywhere’ |
| Herbert Trench. b. 1865. |
Lindisfarne |
| I Seek Thee in the Heart Alone |
| Evelyn Underhill (Mrs. Stuart Moore). b. 1875. |
Immanence |
| Introversion |
| Uxbridge Road |
| Regnum Caelorum Vim Patitur |
| Corpus Christi |
| Henry Vaughan. 1621–1695. |
The Search |
| The Retreate |
| The Morning Watch |
| Rules and Lessons |
| The World |
| The Knot |
| The Dwelling-place |
| Quickness |
| C. M. Verschoyle. |
Crucifixion on the Mountain |
| The Deliverer |
| Samuel Waddington. b. 1844. |
A Persian Apologue |
| Arthur Edward Waite. b. 1860. |
At the End of Things |
| A Ladder of Life |
| Restoration |
| How I came to the Sea |
| Of Consummation |
| The Morality of the Lost Word |
| Clarence A. Walworth. |
Musa Extatica |
| Frederick William Orde Ward. b. 1843. |
The Beatific Vision |
| Redemption |
| David Atwood Wasson. 1823–1887. |
The Mystic |
| Isaac Watts. 1674–1748. |
The Incomprehensible |
| Charles Weekes. b. 1867. |
That |
| Walt Whitman. 1819–1892. |
From the ‘Song of the Open Road’ |
| From ‘Passage to India’ |
| Chanting the Square Deific |
| All is Truth |
| Grand is the Seen |
| Oscar Wilde. 1856–1900. |
E Tenebris |
| From ‘Panthea’ |
| From ‘Humanitad’ |
| Sarah Williams. 1841–1868. |
Deep-sea Soundings |
| Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. b. 1866. |
Anima Naturae |
| Nox Nivosa |
| The Mystery of Light |
| William Wordsworth. 1770–1850. |
From ‘The Excursion’ |
| From ‘On the Power of Sound’ |
| Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
| From ‘Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey’ |
| From ‘The Prelude’ |
| William Butler Yeats. b. 1865. |
The Rose of Battle |
| To the Secret Rose |
