Robert Bridges, ed. (18441930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. Book IV: Nos. 342449. Lovingkindness Sympathies Christian Charity Myths Christian Virtue Vocation & Active Virtue Social Virtue & Freedom Heroism The Happy Warrior Life in Death The Heavenly Kingdom.
Richard Watson Dixon (18331900)From The Wanderer
William Blake (17571827)Daybreak
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)Prometheus, i. 618
Fyodor Dostoevsky (18211881)From The Brothers Karamazof
William Blake (17571827)The Lamb
William Wordsworth (17701850)From Ode to Duty
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)From Mr. Bowyer Nichols quotation in Words and Days
William Butler Yeats (18651939)The Pity of Love
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180)vii. 9
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)Prometheus, iv. 400
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, ii, p. 237
Francis William Bourdillon (18521921)Ailes dAlouette
Fyodor Dostoevsky (18211881)From The Brothers Karamazof
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)From The Ancient Mariner
John Keats (17951821)From Revision of Hyperion
Fyodor Dostoevsky (18211881)From The Brothers Karamazof
Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)In the Valley of the Elwy
William Shakespeare (15641616)From As You Like It, ii. 7
William Blake (17571827)From William Bond
William Shakespeare (15641616)K. Lear, iii. 4
William Wordsworth (17701850)Resolution and Independence, 1802
John Keats (17951821)Meg Merrilies
José-Maria de Heredia (18421905)Le Laboureur
Arthur Rimbaud (18541891)Bonne pensée du matin
William Wordsworth (17701850)From Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, ii, p. 74
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)From The Ancient Mariner
Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)The Handsome Heart
André Chénier (17621794)From Fragments dIdylles
Digby Mackworth Dolben (18481867)The Shrine
James Naylor (16181660)His last testimony
Digby Mackworth Dolben (18481867)He Would Have His Lady Sing
Virgil (7019 B.C.)From The Ænead
John Milton (16081674)Paradise Lost, ii. 582
BibleMatthew, 25:31
Plato (427?347 B.C.)From Phaedo
John Milton (16081674)End of Comus
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13401400)Truth ; George Herbert (15931633)Employment
Thomas à Kempis (1379/801471)III. 57
Plato (427?347 B.C.)Republic 604, B
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, ii, p. 130
John Milton (16081674)On His Blindness
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, ii, p. 177
Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)The Habit of Perfection
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?1618)His Pilgrimage
Digby Mackworth Dolben (18481867)Requests
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, i, p. 1
Leo Tolstoy (18281910)From Resurrection
John Milton (16081674)On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three
Blaise Pascal (16231662)From Pensées
Charles Wesley (17071788)Hymn No. 94
John Milton (16081674)From Areopagitica
Richard Watson Dixon (18331900)From Lyrical Poems
George Borrow (18031881)From Lavengro
John Milton (16081674)Paradise Lost, v. 519
Kabir (14401518)From One Hundred Poems, i. 68
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, i, p. 95
Kabir (14401518)From One Hundred Poems, i. 82
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 18211881)From Fragments dun Journal Intime, ii, p. 192
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (15331592)Essais, ii. 17
Richard Watson Dixon (18331900)From Loves Consolation
Robert Burns (17591796)From Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
Edmund Burke (17291797)From Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
Thucydides (c. 460395 B.C.)Hist. ii. 37
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (16981755)Quoted in Sainte-Beuve
Abraham Lincoln (18091865)From Reply to a Serenade
Abraham Lincoln (18091865)From Address at Dedication of National Cemetery at Gettysburg
Edmund Burke (17291797)From Speech on moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies
John Milton (16081674)From Areopagitica
William Blake (17571827)From Milton
Sir Walter Scott (17711832)Lay of the Last Minstrel
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (18101888)From The Private of the Buffs
John Milton (16081674)From Samson Agonistes
Kabir (14401518)From One Hundred Poems, i. 36
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)From Hellas
Church ServiceAccingimini
AnonymousFrom The Times, 1914
AnonymousFrom a South Indian Tamil book of poems
William Wordsworth (17701850)Character of the Happy Warrior
Homer (fl. 850 B.C.)From the Iliad
John Keats (17951821)From Sonnet
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)From On Death
Andrew Lang (18441912)Song by the Subconscious Self
William James (18421910)From The Will to Believe
William Blake (17571827)To the Christians
Julian Grenfell (18881915)Into Battle
William Shakespeare (15641616)From Sonnet XI
Rupert Brooke (18871915)Peace
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)Prometheus, iii. 3, 108
Rupert Brooke (18871915)The Soldier
Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)Requiem
William Collins (17211759)How Sleep the Brave
Charles Wolfe (17911823)The Burial of Sir John Moore at Coruña
Lord Byron (17881824)From Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
John Milton (16081674)From Lycidas
Digby Mackworth Dolben (18481867)From Dum agonizatur anima
Church ServiceIste cognovit
John Milton (16081674)From Samson Agonistes
William Shakespeare (15641616)Richard II, ii. 1
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)From Adonais
James Russell Lowell (18191891)From Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration 1865
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)From Adonais
André Chénier (17621794)Extract
Church ServiceGaudent in cælis
Church ServiceBeatus Vincentius
John Milton (16081674)Paradise Lost, vi. 29
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)From end of Prometheus
Church ServiceSanctum est