Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- "A Heauenly Poesie": The Devotional Lyric -- A Note on the Texts -- PART ONE: THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE DEVOTIONAL LYRIC -- The Book of Psalms (C. Seventh Century B.C.E.) -- Psalm 6 -- Psalm 8 -- Psalm 23 -- Psalm 42 -- Psalm 98 -- Sappho (C. 625-C. 570 B.C.E.) -- Fragment 1 -- The Book of Jeremiah (Early Sixth Century B.C.E.) -- Chapter 10.19-24 -- The Book of Job (C. Sixth-Fourth Centuries B.C.E.) -- Chapter 10 -- Anacreon (C. 582-485 B.C.E.) -- [To Dionysos] ["O Lord, with whom the conqueror Eros"] -- The Book of Jonah (C. Fifth-Fourth Centuries B.C.E.) -- Chapter 2: Jonah's Prayer -- Homeric Hymn to Ares (C. Third Century B.C.E.) -- To Ares -- The Song of Songs (C. Third Century B.C.E.?) -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Lucretius (C. 99-C. 55 B.C.E.) -- from De rerum natura Lines I-25 -- Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) -- Ode 1.31 -- Ode 3.22 -- The Gospel According to Luke (C. 60-80 C.E.) -- Luke 1.46-55 (The Magnificat) -- PART TWO: EARLY CHRISTIAN LYRICS THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY -- Clement of Alexandria (C. 150-C. 215) -- Ode to the Saviour Christ -- Gregory of Nazianzus (C. 329-C. 390) -- An Evening Hymn -- Ambrose of Milan (340-397) -- ["Maker of all, eternal King,"] -- Prudentius (348-c. 413) -- Epilogue -- Cædmon (fl. c. 657) -- Cædmon's Hymn -- Alcuin (C. 735-804) -- On the Holy Cross -- Rabanus Maurus (C. 776-856) -- Come, O Creator Spirit, Come -- Gottschalk (803?-867?) -- ["Why do you ask, little boy,"] -- Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) -- The Loving Soul's Jubilation -- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) -- Lost, All in Wonder -- Medieval Lyrics (Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) -- ["Now goes sun under wood"] -- ["The mind of thy passion, sweet Jesus,"] -- ["When I see on the cross hung"] -- ["Winter wakens all my care,"] -- ["I sigh when I sing"] -- ["Steadfast cross, among all other"].

["Lord, thou called me"] -- ["All other love is like the moon"] -- ["Gold and all this world's win"] -- ["Jesu Christ, my beloved sweet,"] -- ["I Sing of a maiden that is matchless,"] -- ["Jesus's wounds so wide"] -- ["God, that made all things of naught"] -- ["Jesu, my love, my joy, my rest,"] -- ["God be in my heed"] -- PART THREE: PSALM TRANSLATIONS OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: THE BIBLE AS ART -- Thomas Sternhold (1500-1549) and John Hopkins (d. 1570) -- Psalm 3-Domine quid multiplicati. -- Psalm 70-Deus in adiutorium. -- Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542) -- Psalm 38-Domine ne in furore tuo. -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) -- Psalm 55 -- Anne Askew (Ayscough) (1521-1546) -- The voice of Anne Askewe out of the 54. Psalme of David, called Deus in nomine tuo. -- Anne Lok (C. 1530-After 1590) -- A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in Maner of a Paraphrase upon the 51 Psalme of Dauid. -- George Gascoigne (C. 1535-1577) -- The introduction to the Psalme of De profundis. -- Gascoignes De profundis. -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) and Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621) -- Psalm 13-Usquequo, Domine? -- Psalm 43-Judica me, Deus -- Psalm 111-Confitebor tibi -- Psalm 117-Laudate Dominum -- Psalm 139-Domine, probasti -- Psalm 142-Voce mea ad Dominum -- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- The 23 Psalme -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Psalm 88 -- Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) -- Psalme 23 -- The Bay Psalm Book (1640) -- Psalm 141 -- PART FOUR: THE FLOURISHING OF THE DEVOTIONAL LYRIC IN THE POST-REFORMATION ERA -- John Skelton (C. 1460-1529) -- A Prayer to the Father of Heauen -- William Baldwin (1515-1563?) -- Christ my Beloved -- Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- A songe made by her Majestie and songe before her at her cominge from white hall to Powles through Fleete streete in Anno domini 1588. Songe in December after the scatteringe of the Spanishe Navy.

Richard Stanihurst (1545-1618) -- A Prayer to the Trinitie -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) -- from Amoretti -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628) -- from Calica -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- from Certaine Sonets -- Robert Southwell (1561-1595) -- Christs bloody sweate -- A childe my Choyce -- The Burning Babe -- William Alabaster (1567-1640) -- A Divine Sonnet -- Upon the Ensigns of Christ's Crucifying: The Sponge -- The Epiphany -- A Sonnet on the Resurrection -- Thomas Campion (1567-1620) -- 1 ["Avthor of light, revive my dying spright,"] -- 9 ["Most sweet and pleasing are thy wayes O God,"] -- Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) -- from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum Lines 265-328 -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward. -- A Hymne to God the Father -- Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse. -- from Holy Sonnets (1635 numbering) -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- To Heaven -- A Hymne to God the Father -- Sir John Beaumont (1583-1627) -- In Desolation -- William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649) -- from Flowres of Sion -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- To His Saviour. The New yeers Gift. -- His Prayer for Absolution. -- To God. ["Lord, I am like to Misletoe,"] -- To God. ["Do with me, God! As Thou didst deal with Iohn,"] -- His Ejaculation to God. -- To God. ["I'le come, I'le creep, (though Thou dost threat)"] -- His Wish to God. -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- from Divine Fancies -- from Emblemes, Book Five -- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- The Altar -- The Reprisall -- Good Friday -- The Quidditie -- Deniall -- Iesu -- Love-joy -- The Pulley -- A true Hymne -- Love (III) -- Christopher Harvey (1597-1663) -- Confusion -- The Sabbath. Or Lords day. -- Invitation. -- Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600-c. 1678) -- On the Death of Our Lord -- Thomas Washbourne (1606-1687) -- Upon Divine Love -- John Milton (1608-1674).

Sonnet 7-On His Being Arrived at the Age of 23. -- Sonnet 18-On the late Massacher in Piemont -- Sonnet 19-On His Blindness -- Upon the Circumcision -- from Paradise Lost Book 3, lines I-55 -- William Cartwright (1611-1643) -- Confession -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632. -- Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) -- The Authors Motto -- On the still surviving Marks of our Saviour's Wounds. -- To our Lord, upon the Water made Wine. -- Our Lord in His Circumcision to His Father. -- On the wounds of our crucified Lord. -- On our crucified Lord, naked and bloody. -- A Song of divine Love. -- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) -- The Coronet -- Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) -- Distraction -- The Pursuite -- Unprofitableness -- The Night -- The Book -- Mary Carey (C. 1609-C. 1681) -- Written by me at the death of my 4th son, and 5th Child, Peregrine Payler -- Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) -- The Penitential Declaration -- A Sigh of Penitential Love -- after any Fall -- Good-Friday -- Katherine Philips (1632-1664) -- A Prayer -- An Collins (fl. 1653) -- Another Song. -- Eldred Revett (fl. 1657) -- Prayer -- Julia Palmer (C. 1637-C. 1718) -- from Centuries 2.35-The soull under the distempers of its body releives itself, by eyeing its future glory, and freedome. -- Thomas Traherne (C. 1637-1674) -- The Rapture. -- The Person. -- Love. -- Desire. -- The Return. -- Edward Taylor (1642-1729) -- from Preparatory Meditations -- Huswifery -- PART FIVE: THE POETIC SUBLIME: THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES -- Hymns of the Long Eighteenth Century -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737) -- Isaac Watts (1674-1748) -- Charles Wesley (1707-1788) -- Jupiter Hammon (1711-C. 1806) -- John Henry Newton (1725-1807) -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847).

Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848) -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Universal Prayer -- Christopher Smart (1722-1771) -- from Jubilate Agno -- William Blake (1757-1827) -- The Divine Image -- from Milton: A Poem Preface -- from The Gates of Paradise To The Accuser who is The God of This World -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- My Baptismal Birthday -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1892) -- Grace -- The Rhodora -- Gerald Griffin (1803-1840) -- To the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- A Child's Thought of God -- Bereavement -- The Soul's Expression -- Comfort -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- My Cathedral -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- from In Memoriam A.H.H. -- Charles Harpur (1813-1868) -- How Full of God -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- 49 ["I never lost as much but twice,"] -- 193 ["I shall know why-when Time is over-"] -- 249 ["Wild Nights-Wild Nights!"] -- 437 ["Prayer is the little implement"] -- 487 ["You love the Lord-you cannot see-"] -- 564 ["My period had come for Prayer-"] -- 754 ["My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-"] -- 881 ["I've none to tell me to but Thee"] -- 1461 ["'Heavenly Father'-take to thee"] -- 1594 ["Immured in Heaven!"] -- 1751 ["There comes an hour when begging stops,"] -- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- A Better Resurrection -- [Lord, dost Thou look on me] -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- 'AΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι -- The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- God's Grandeur -- As Kingfishers Catch Fire -- Spring -- The Windhover -- Pied Beauty -- Hurrahing in Harvest -- The Lantern Out of Doors -- Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord -- To what serves Mortal Beauty? -- Carrion Comfort -- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

E Tenebris.