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The Poets’ Bible
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.

Bibliographic Record

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