| Is it not strange, the darkest hour / That ever dawn’d on sinful earth / Should touch the heart with softer power / For comfort, than an Angel’s mirth? |
| —“Christ on the Cross,” ll. 1–4. |
| John Keble |
The Poets’ Bible
New Testament Section
Selected and Edited by W. Garrett Horder
This unique anthology of 328 selections maps Gospel verses to their inspiration in verse.
Contents
LONDON: WARD, LOCK & BOWDEN, 1895
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012
| Part I. Introductory | ||
| The Fulness of the Times by Walter Chalmers Smith | ||
| The Four Evangelists by Adam of St. Victor | ||
| The Pathways of the Holy Land by Elizabeth Charles | ||
| Part II. Events connected with the Birth and Childhood of our Lord | ||
| Zacharias Incredulous by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Virgin Mary Visiting Elizabeth from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| Nativity of John the Baptist by Gerard Moultrie | ||
| Bethlehem from the Roman Breviary | ||
| “There was no Room for them in the Inn” by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ||
| The Birthday of Jesus by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| New Prince, New Pomp by Robert Southwell | ||
| The Advent by Elizabeth Clementine Kinney | ||
| On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity by John Milton | ||
| A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour by Ben Jonson | ||
| Christmas Morn by Noel Thomas Carrington | ||
| Hymn for Advent by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | ||
| The Angels, for the Nativitie of Our Lord by William Drummond of Hawthornden | ||
| For the Nativitie of Our Lord by William Drummond of Hawthornden | ||
| The Angel Song by John Keble | ||
| ’Twas Midnight by R. S. Trend | ||
| Upon the Circumcision by John Milton | ||
| The Circumcision of Christ by John Keble | ||
| John and the Infant Christ by Charles Lamb | ||
| Simeon by Hartley Coleridge | ||
| Epiphany from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| Of the Epiphany by Sir John Beaumont | ||
| The Magi by Richard Chenevix Trench | ||
| The Shadow of the Star by Gerard Moultrie | ||
| The Flight into Egypt by John Moultrie | ||
| The Slaughter of the Innocents by William Shakespeare | ||
| The Slaughter of the Innocents from the Roman Breviary | ||
| The Slaughter of the Innocents by Reginald Heber | ||
| The Child Jesus by Giles Fletcher | ||
| The Child Jesus by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| The Mother Mary by George MacDonald | ||
| The Childhood of Christ by Anna H. Drury | ||
| At Nazareth by George Alexander Chadwick | ||
| Mary Seeking Her Son by George MacDonald | ||
| The Passover in the Holy Family by Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ||
| For the Holy Family by Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ||
| Part III. Announcement and Introduction of Our Lord’s Public Ministry | ||
| I am the Voice by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Saint John the Baptist by Earl Nelson | ||
| John the Baptist by Frederick W. H. Myers | ||
| Vox Clamantis by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| For the Baptiste by William Drummond of Hawthornden | ||
| On the Water of Our Lord’s Baptisme by Richard Crashaw | ||
| John Baptizing Christ from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| “Now had the great Proclaimer” by John Milton | ||
| The Baptism of Christ by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| “The healing graft and natural vine” by Walter Chalmers Smith | ||
| “How didst thou start, Thou Holy Baptist” by John Henry Newman | ||
| Comest Thou to Me? by Lady Georgiana Fullerton | ||
| The Glorious Eremite by John Milton | ||
| Led up by the Spirit by Samuel Greg | ||
| The Temptation by Richard Chenevix Trench | ||
| The Temptation of Christ by William Croswell | ||
| Command that this Stone by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Then the Devil taketh Him by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| If Thou be the Son of God by Richard Crashaw (B.) | ||
| The First Disciples | ||
| St. Andrew by Henry Alford | ||
| To St. Andrew, Fisherman by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| James and John by John Henry Newman | ||
| St. John by Reginald Heber | ||
| St. James, the Apostle by J. S. B. Monsell | ||
| St. Bartholomew, the Apostle by J. S. B. Monsell | ||
| The Marriage in Cana by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| Mary at the Wedding Feast by George MacDonald | ||
| Water turned into Wine by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| To our Lord on the Water-made Wine by Richard Crashaw | ||
| Part IV. Our Lord’s First Passover, and the subsequent Transactions until the Second | ||
| Nicodemus by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Night by Henry Vaughan | ||
| Jacob’s Well by James Freeman Clarke | ||
| The Woman of Samaria by George MacDonald | ||
| Christ the Healer by John Greenleaf Whittier | ||
| The Lord despised and rejected by Richard Crashaw (B.) | ||
| In the Synagogue at Nazareth by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| The Fishermen of Bethsaida by John Keble | ||
| “Depart from Me” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| “He Commandeth the Unclean Spirits, and They Come out” by Alfred Norris | ||
| The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| The Paralytic healed by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Call of Matthew by Henry Alford | ||
| St. Matthew by J. S. B. Monsell | ||
| Part V. Our Lord’s Second Passover, and the subsequent Transactions until the Third | ||
| The Pool of Bethesda by Bernard Barton | ||
| The Man with the Withered Hand by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Jesus Praying by Hartley Coleridge | ||
| The Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| “I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my Roof” by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Centurion’s Faith by Alan Brodrick | ||
| The Widow of Nain by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| The Message of the Baptist to Christ (I.) by Richard Crashaw (W.) | ||
| The Message of the Baptist to Christ (II.) by Richard Crashaw (C.) | ||
| The Woman That Was a Sinner by George MacDonald | ||
| She loved much by Hartley Coleridge | ||
| Mary Magdalen by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola | ||
| Mary Magdalen by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan | ||
| Mary Magdalen by Jean Ingelow | ||
| Were Not the Sinful Mary’s Tears by Thomas Moore | ||
| Mary Magdalen by George Herbert | ||
| The Women Who Ministered unto Him by George MacDonald | ||
| The Mother Mary Desiring to See Christ by George MacDonald | ||
| The Woman That Lifted up Her Voice by George MacDonald | ||
| I will open My Mouth in a Parable by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| What Went Ye out for to See? by Arthur Hugh Clough | ||
| Besought to depart by John Keble | ||
| ‘She Is Not Dead, but Sleepeth’ by William Henry Furness | ||
| The Healing of the Daughter of Jairus by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| ‘And They laughed at Him’ by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd by George MacDonald | ||
| The Woman Who Came Behind Him in the Crowd by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| St. John the Baptist Beheaded in Prison (I.) from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| St. John the Baptist Beheaded in Prison (II.) from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| St. John the Baptist Beheaded in Prison (III.) from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| St. John the Baptist Beheaded in Prison (IV.) from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| The Daughter of Herodias by Lucy Hooper | ||
| A Burial at Machærus by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Christ departing to pray by Joseph Anstice | ||
| On the Miracle of Loaves by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Boy with the Five Loaves by John Keble | ||
| “Whence Shall We Buy Bread?” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| St. Andrew by George Thomas Coster | ||
| To the Sea of Galilee by Benjamin Waugh | ||
| “Peace! It Is I”—Anonymous | ||
| “It Is I: Be Not Afraid” by John Henry Newman | ||
| ‘O Thou of Little Faith’ by Arthur Hugh Clough | ||
| The Walking on the Sea by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| ‘When he saw the wind boisterous’ by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Part VI. From the Third Passover during Our Lord’s Ministry until His final Departure from Galilee at the Festival of Tabernacles | ||
| ‘The Silence of Christ to the Woman of Canaan’ by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Have Mercy on Me, O Lord, Thou Son of David by Alan Brodrick | ||
| The Syrophenician Woman by George MacDonald | ||
| Christ opening the Eyes of the Blind by John Keble | ||
| “Ephphatha” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| It is good to be Here by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Of the Transfiguration of Our Lord by Sir John Beaumont | ||
| Of the Transfiguration of Our Lord by Samuel Greg | ||
| Hymn on the Transfiguration by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | ||
| Jesus Took Him by the Hand by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| The Stater giving Fish by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| A Little Child in the midst by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| On James and John Wishinge Fire on Ye Samaritans by Thomas Fuller | ||
| The Unthankful Lepers by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Ten Lepers by John Keble | ||
| The Missing Nine by George Thomas Coster | ||
| “Were There Not Ten Cleansed?” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Part VII. The Festival of Tabernacles, and the subsequent Transactions until our Lord’s Arrival at Bethany Six Days before the Fourth Passover | ||
| The Woman in the Temple by George MacDonald | ||
| ‘Then took They up Stones’ by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Good Samaritan by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| “When I Come again I Will Repay Thee” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Mary to Jesus in the House by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| Mary at Jesus’ Feet by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Blind Man by John Hay | ||
| Lazarus and Mary by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| Lazarus by Gerard Moultrie | ||
| “Jesus Wept” by William Michael Rossetti | ||
| An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician by Robert Browning | ||
| The Raising of Lazarus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| Martha by George MacDonald | ||
| Mary by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| Mary by George MacDonald | ||
| “Lo, Christ Hath Gone to Bethany” from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound by George MacDonald | ||
| ‘I have bought Five Yoke of Oxen’ by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| The Lost Piece by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| For the Prodigall by William Drummond of Hawthornden | ||
| On the Prodigall by Richard Crashaw | ||
| A Prodigal Son by Christina Georgina Rossetti | ||
| ‘I will arise and go to my Father’ by Walter Chalmers Smith | ||
| Lazarus by William Shakespeare | ||
| “Fared Sumptuously Every Day” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Two went up into the Temple to pray by Richard Crashaw | ||
| “This Man went down to His House justified” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Children Brought to Christ by Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch | ||
| “The Young Ruler” by George Alexander Chadwick | ||
| The Mother of Zebedee’s Children by George MacDonald | ||
| The Prayer of the Sons of Zebedee by Richard Crashaw (C.) | ||
| “Receive Thy Sight” by William Cullen Bryant | ||
| Blind Bartimeus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| Blind Bartimeus by George MacDonald | ||
| Zacchæus in the Sycamore Tree by Richard Crashaw (W.) | ||
| Zacchæus by George MacDonald | ||
| On Zacheus by Thomas Fuller | ||
| Part VIII. Our Lord’s Public Entry into Jerusalem, and the subsequent Transactions before the Fourth Passover | ||
| Upon the Asse That Bore Our Saviour by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Christ’s Entrance into Jerusalem by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| Christ’s Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph by Jeremy Taylor | ||
| Christ Weeping over Jerusalem by John Keble | ||
| When He beheld the City by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Jerusalem by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| The Children crying in the Temple by John Keble | ||
| The Barren Fig-Tree by Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch | ||
| The Withered Fig-Tree by George Thomas Coster | ||
| Is it lawful to give Tribute to Cæsar? by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Give to Cæsar … and to God by Richard Crashaw | ||
| Christ retiring to Bethany by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| The Widow’s Mites by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Widow with the Two Mites by George MacDonald | ||
| We Would See Jesus by Charles Laurence Ford | ||
| But though He had done so many Miracles by Richard Crashaw | ||
| A Vision of Virgins by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) | ||
| “The Ten Virgins” by Gerard Moultrie | ||
| Mary by George MacDonald | ||
| Mary’s Gift by George Thomas Coster | ||
| Part IX. The Fourth Passover. Our Lord’s Passion; and the accompanying Events, until the end of the Jewish Sabbath | ||
| Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet by George Washington Bethune | ||
| The Sifting of Peter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
| This Do in Remembrance of Me by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | ||
| Hymn of the Last Supper by John Pierpont | ||
| “I have yet many Things to say unto You” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| “I have yet many Things to say unto You” by Samuel Greg | ||
| “But now They have seen and hated” by Richard Crashaw | ||
| Christ Departing by John Keble | ||
| Gethsemane by Nathaniel Parker Willis | ||
| Gethsemane by Joseph Anstice | ||
| Gethsemane—Anonymous | ||
| Gethsemane by W. B. Flower | ||
| Christ Betrayed by Anne C. Lynch Botta | ||
| The Betrayal by Matthew Bridges | ||
| The Kiss of Judas by Robert Stephen Hawker | ||
| Judas by William Shakespeare | ||
| The Betrayer by George Herbert | ||
| On St. Peter Cutting off Malchus His Eare by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Trial by George Alexander Chadwick | ||
| Caiaphas Angry That Christ Confesses He Is the Christ by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Before Pilate by Richard Crashaw | ||
| On Christ Lookinge on Peter by Thomas Fuller | ||
| The Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| The Look by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| The Meaning of the Look by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| The Tears of Peter by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| The Dream of Pilate’s Wife by Matthew Bridges | ||
| Pilate’s Wife by George MacDonald | ||
| Christ to the Daughters of Jerusalem by William A. Newman | ||
| Pilate washing his Hands by William Shakespeare | ||
| To Pontius washing His Hands by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Crucifixion by John Greenleaf Whittier | ||
| Good Friday by Joseph Anstice | ||
| Christ on the Cross by John Keble | ||
| The Two Thieves by Dora Greenwell | ||
| The Myrrh by John Keble | ||
| “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” by Cecilia Mary Caddell | ||
| “Father! forgive Them” by George Daniel | ||
| “They know not what They do” by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| Stabat Mater by Jacobus de Benedictis | ||
| Mary at the Cross by George MacDonald | ||
| The Cross by Elizabeth Charles | ||
| With a Prayer by Alexander Smith | ||
| The Descent from the Cross by Herbert Kynaston | ||
| The Descent from the Cross by Christina Georgina Rossetti | ||
| The Tomb of Joseph by Archer Gurney | ||
| Christ in the Sepulchre by John Keble | ||
| The Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea by W. A. Newman | ||
| Upon the Sepulchre of Our Lord by William Drummond of Hawthornden | ||
| On the Sepulchre of Christ by Tommaso Campanella | ||
| The Tomb of Rock by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| A Hymn for Easter Eve by John Moultrie | ||
| Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus by Richard Watson Dixon | ||
| Part X. Our Lord’s Resurrection, His subsequent Appearances, and His Ascension | ||
| Upon the Sepulchre of Our Lord by Richard Crashaw | ||
| Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston | ||
| Easter Day by John Keble | ||
| An Easter Ode by Henry Alford | ||
| Christ Coming Forth from the Tomb by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| Easter by Geneviéve M. J. Irons | ||
| Easter Hymn by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | ||
| The Resurrection by Tommaso Campanella | ||
| The Angels at the Sepulchre by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| Who Will Roll away the Stone? by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| Mary seeth Two Angels sitting by Walter Chalmers Smith | ||
| Rabboni! by Hardwick Shute | ||
| They gave large Money to the Soldiers by Richard Crashaw (W.) | ||
| Christ at Emmaus by William Cowper | ||
| Thomas Not with the Ten by Herbert Kynaston | ||
| The Scars of the Wounds shown to the Disciples by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Christ to Thomas by Richard Crashaw (C.) | ||
| Thomas with the Ten by Herbert Kynaston | ||
| Except I shall put my Finger by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| I go a Fishing by Walter Chalmers Smith | ||
| St. John by John Keble | ||
| The Fire by the Sea by Alice Cary | ||
| It Is the Lord! by Charles Edward Mudie | ||
| But some doubted by Richard Crashaw (W.) | ||
| Last Touches, Last Steps, Last Words by Elizabeth Charles | ||
| The Ascension of Christ by Philip Stanhope Worsley | ||
| Mount of Olives by St. Joseph of the Studium | ||
| The Ascension by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| The Choruses of the Ascension by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ||
| Hymn of the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | ||
| The Unchanging Christ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| Part XI. The Apostolic Age | ||
| St. Luke by Henry Alford | ||
| St. Luke by J. S. B. Monsell | ||
| The Election of Matthias by George Wither | ||
| Pentecost by Arthur Middlemore Morgan | ||
| “When the Day of Pentecost Was Fully Come” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Whit-Sunday from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| Pentecost by John Keble | ||
| The Gift of Tongues by John Henry Newman | ||
| “He shall bring all Things to your Remembrance” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| “Whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Peter and Cornelius by John Keble | ||
| St. Peter by John Keble | ||
| St. Peter in Prison by J. S. B. Monsell | ||
| On St. Peter loosed by the Angel by Richard Crashaw (W.) | ||
| Peter’s Chains fall off by Richard Crashaw | ||
| Herod devoured of Worms by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Dorcas by George MacDonald | ||
| Dorcas by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| St. Barnabas by Earl Nelson | ||
| “St. Barnabas the Apostle” from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| The Lost Sapphire by George Thomas Coster | ||
| St. Stephen by Dante Alighieri | ||
| St. Stephen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ||
| St. Stephen by John Keble | ||
| The Martyrdom of Stephen by Adam of St. Victor | ||
| Simon Magus by Richard Crashaw | ||
| St. Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch by John Keble | ||
| Conversion of St. Paul by Henry Alford | ||
| Paul by Samuel Johnson | ||
| Saul the Persecutor Journeying to Damascus by Thomas Roscoe | ||
| The Conversion of St. Paul by John Keble | ||
| Paul’s Conversion and Blindness by Richard Crashaw (C.) | ||
| St. Paul and the Viper by Richard Crashaw (G.) | ||
| Of Paul’s Danger by Thomas Fuller | ||
| St. Paul at Melita by John Henry Newman | ||
| ‘I am ready not to be bound only but to dye’ by Richard Crashaw | ||
| The Witness of St. Paul by Thomas Toke Lynch | ||
| “I Bear in My Body the Marks of the Lord Jesus” by Edward Hayes Plumptre | ||
| Waiting for Departure from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| St. John from the Parisian Breviary | ||
| St. John in Patmos by Elizabeth Surr | ||
| St. John by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||