Poems Every Catholic Should Know
Joseph Pearce
This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity.
All of the great ones are here: Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Dante and Chaucer from the High Middle Ages; Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and John Donne from the Reformation; English and American Romantics such as Browning and Whittier; late nineteenth-century mystics like Dickinson and Hopkins, as well the great converts of that period like Newman and Chesterton.
A conscious attempt was made to meet both the standards of academia and the tastes and sensibilities of the faithful.
The selections are arranged chronologically to serve also as a history of verse.
Brief biographical and anecdotal introductions reveal the varied relationships of the poets with each other and with the trials and tribulations of their day.
This magnificent collection is essential for all poetry lovers for those who respond to the beauty of the written word penned in the service of spiritual truth.
Duration - 6h 59m.
Author - Joseph Pearce.
Narrator - Kevin O'Brien.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2016 TAN Books ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity. All of the great ones are here: Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Dante and Chaucer from the High Middle Ages; Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and John Donne from the Reformation; English and American Romantics such as Browning and Whittier; late nineteenth-century mystics like Dickinson and Hopkins, as well the great converts of that period like Newman and Chesterton. A conscious attempt was made to meet both the standards of academia and the tastes and sensibilities of the faithful. The selections are arranged chronologically to serve also as a history of verse. Brief biographical and anecdotal introductions reveal the varied relationships of the poets with each other and with the trials and tribulations of their day. This magnificent collection is essential for all poetry lovers for those who respond to the beauty of the written word penned in the service of spiritual truth. Duration - 6h 59m. Author - Joseph Pearce. Narrator - Kevin O'Brien. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2016 TAN Books ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:14
Dedication
Duration:00:00:20
Preface
Duration:00:15:57
St. Hildegard of Bingen - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:47
St. Hildegard of Bingen - The Love of All
Duration:00:00:24
St. Hildegard of Bingen - Mary of Magdala
Duration:00:01:32
St. Francis of Assisi - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:21
St. Francis of Assisi - The Canticle of Brother Sun
Duration:00:02:18
St. Francis of Assisi - Prayer for Peace
Duration:00:01:04
St. Gertrude the Great - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:48
St. Gertrude the Great - Resting in Love
Duration:00:01:34
St. Gertrude the Great - Love that Nurtures
Duration:00:01:28
Dante Alighieri - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:41
Dante Alighieri - O Thou Vain Glory of the Human Powers
Duration:00:02:12
Dante Alighieri - A Warning Against Rash Judgements
Duration:00:02:11
Dante Alighieri - A Dilemma Concerning Divine Justice
Duration:00:04:58
Dante Alighieri - O Company Elect to the Great Supper
Duration:00:00:42
Dante Alighieri - His Examination in Love
Duration:00:03:20
Dante Alighieri - O Lady, Thou in Whom My Hope Is Strong
Duration:00:00:52
Dante Alighieri - Thou Virgin Mother, Daughter of Thy Son
Duration:00:01:25
Before Chaucer - Historical Note
Duration:00:00:28
Before Chaucer - This World's Joy
Duration:00:00:54
Before Chaucer - A Hymn to the Virgin
Duration:00:01:07
Before Chaucer - Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose
Duration:00:01:23
Before Chaucer - Quia Amore Langueo
Duration:00:07:19
Before Chaucer - Steadfast Cross
Duration:00:00:27
Before Chaucer - Lovely Tear of Lovely Eye
Duration:00:01:17
Before Chaucer - The Assumption
Duration:00:00:34
Before Chaucer - The Rose that Bore Jesu
Duration:00:00:45
Before Chaucer - By a Chapel
Duration:00:01:00
Before Chaucer - Prayer for the Journey
Duration:00:00:26
Before Chaucer - Corpus Christi Carol
Duration:00:00:49
Geoffrey Chaucer - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:16
Geoffrey Chaucer - From the General Prologue, the Canterbury Tales
Duration:00:06:23
Geoffrey Chaucer - From The Prioress's Tale
Duration:00:02:04
Geoffrey Chaucer - From The Prioress's Tale (Continued)
Duration:00:07:01
John Lydgate - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:32
John Lydgate - Vox Ultima Crucis
Duration:00:00:41
John Walton - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:07
John Walton - God, the Port of Peace
Duration:00:00:40
William Dunbar - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:30
William Dunbar - On the Nativity of Christ
Duration:00:02:43
Before the Storm - Historical Note
Duration:00:00:23
Before the Storm - Carol
Duration:00:00:43
Before the Storm - Cradle Song
Duration:00:00:32
The Storm - Historical Note
Duration:00:01:27
The Storm - As Ye Came from the Holy Land
Duration:00:02:30
The Storm - The Lamentation for Walsingham
Duration:00:01:33
St. Robert Southwell - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:23
St. Robert Southwell - Marie Magdalen's Complaint at Christ's Death
Duration:00:02:16
St. Robert Southwell - The Burning Babe
Duration:00:01:47
St. Robert Southwell - New Heaven, New War
Duration:00:03:03
St. Robert Southwell - New Prince, New Pomp
Duration:00:01:30
St. Robert Southwell - Content and Rich
Duration:00:03:02
St. Robert Southwell - From Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
Duration:00:03:15
St. Robert Southwell - Seek Flowers of Heaven
Duration:00:01:18
St. Robert Southwell - Upon the Image of Death
Duration:00:02:42
St. Robert Southwell - The Assumption of Our Lady
Duration:00:01:26
St. Robert Southwell - A Child My Choice
Duration:00:01:55
St. Robert Southwell - Decease Release
Duration:00:02:50
Sir Walter Raleigh - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:22
Sir Walter Raleigh - The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
Duration:00:03:06
Sir Walter Raleigh - What Is Our Life
Duration:00:00:44
Sir Walter Raleigh - The Conclusion
Duration:00:00:39
Thomas Gooding - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:26
Thomas Gooding - Epitaph
Duration:00:00:26
Anonymous - Historical Note
Duration:00:00:18
Anonymous - Hierusalem
Duration:00:02:00
Alexander Montgomerie - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:23
Alexander Montgomerie - Away Vain World
Duration:00:02:09
Edmund Spenser - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:23
Edmund Spenser - From The Faerie Queene II, Canto VIII
Duration:00:01:16
Edmund Spenser - From Amoretti
Duration:00:00:54
Edmund Spenser - From An Hymne of Heavenly Love
Duration:00:06:38
Edmund Spenser - From An Hymne of Heavenly Beauty
Duration:00:02:31
Ben Jonson - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:42
Ben Jonson - A Hymn to God the Father
Duration:00:01:06
John Donne - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:55
John Donne - Holy Sonnets
Duration:00:08:01
John Donne - Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward
Duration:00:03:19
John Donne - A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany
Duration:00:02:09
George Herbert - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:39
George Herbert - Easter
Duration:00:00:31
George Herbert - The Agonie
Duration:00:01:17
George Herbert - Vanitie
Duration:00:01:36
George Herbert - Vertue
Duration:00:01:07
George Herbert - The Pulley
Duration:00:01:24
George Herbert - Love
Duration:00:01:17
George Herbert - Peace
Duration:00:02:08
Thomas Randolph - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:20
Thomas Randolph - An Elegie
Duration:00:03:29
Edmund Waller - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:53
Edmund Waller - Of the Last Verses in the Book
Duration:00:01:30
John Milton - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:55
John Milton - On Time
Duration:00:01:17
John Milton - At a Solemn Music
Duration:00:01:52
John Milton - On the Religious Memory of Mrs Catherine Thomson, My Christian Friend, Deceased December 16, 1646
Duration:00:01:17
Sideny Godolphin - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:24
Sideny Godolphin - Hymn
Duration:00:02:02
Anne Bradstreet - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:37
Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband
Duration:00:01:07
Anne Bradstreet - Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Duration:00:02:18
Anne Bradstreet - In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old
Duration:00:01:24
Anne Bradstreet - After the Winter
Duration:00:01:38
Richard Crashaw - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:35
Richard Crashaw - The Author's Motto
Duration:00:00:14
Richard Crashaw - Charitas Nimia, or The Dear Bargain
Duration:00:03:22
Richard Crashaw - A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
Duration:00:08:29
Richard Crashaw - Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa
Duration:00:01:03
Richard Crashaw - Verses from The Shepherd's Hymn
Duration:00:03:43
Richard Crashaw - On the Water of Our Lord's Baptism
Duration:00:00:24
Richard Crashaw - But Men Loved Darkness Rather Thank Light
Duration:00:00:24
Richard Crashaw - On St. Peter Casting Away His Nets at Our Saviour's Call
Duration:00:00:27
Richard Crashaw - I Am Not Worthy that Thou Should'st Come under My Roof
Duration:00:00:25
Richard Crashaw - Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
Duration:00:00:29
Richard Crashaw - The Blind Cured by the Word of Our Saviour
Duration:00:00:30
Richard Crashaw - Christ Crucified
Duration:00:00:36
Richard Crashaw - Upon Our Saviour's Tomb Wherein Never Man Was Laid
Duration:00:00:23
Richard Crashaw - An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife
Duration:00:01:04
Abraham Cowley - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:41
Abraham Cowley - On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
Duration:00:05:11
Henry Vaughan - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:54
Henry Vaughan - Peace
Duration:00:01:01
Henry Vaughan - The Dawning
Duration:00:02:29
Henry Vaughan - Cock-Crowing
Duration:00:02:36
Henry Vaughan - Quickness
Duration:00:01:09
Henry Vaughan - The Revival
Duration:00:01:01
John Bunyan - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:20
John Bunyan - The Pilgrim Song
Duration:00:00:58
John Bunyan - The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation
Duration:00:00:42
John Dryden - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:30
John Dryden - From Religion Laici
Duration:00:01:47
John Dryden - From The Hind and the Panther
Duration:00:02:11
Thomas Traherne - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:21
Thomas Traherne - The Salutation
Duration:00:01:58
Thomas Traherne - From Christian Ethicks
Duration:00:01:50
Thomas Ken - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:50
Thomas Ken - Glory to Thee, My God, This Night
Duration:00:01:24
Jeanne Marie De La Motte-Guyon - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:04
Jeanne Marie De La Motte-Guyon - The Benefits of Suffering
Duration:00:00:47
Jeanne Marie De La Motte-Guyon - I Love My God
Duration:00:00:48
Joseph Addison - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:18
Joseph Addison - Ode
Duration:00:01:19
Charles Wesley - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:30
Charles Wesley - Lines Written During His Courtship
Duration:00:01:31
Charles Wesley - On the Death of His Son
Duration:00:02:17
John Newton - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:18
John Newton - How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
Duration:00:01:19
William Cowper - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:33
William Cowper - Walking with God
Duration:00:01:15
William Cowper - Exhortation to Prayer
Duration:00:01:30
William Blake - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:49
William Blake - Jerusalem
Duration:00:01:00
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:47
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Hymn Before Sun-Rise in the Vale of Chamouni
Duration:00:06:15
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn
Duration:00:01:01
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Hymn
Duration:00:01:09
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - To Nature
Duration:00:01:07
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - My Baptismal Birthday
Duration:00:01:05
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Epitaph
Duration:00:00:54
St. John Henry Newman - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:07
St. John Henry Newman - From The Dream of Gerontius 1
Duration:00:01:16
St. John Henry Newman - From The Dream of Gerontius 2
Duration:00:03:04
St. John Henry Newman - From The Dream of Gerontius 3
Duration:00:00:54
St. John Henry Newman - From The Dream of Gerontius 4
Duration:00:01:14
St. John Henry Newman - The Sign of the Cross
Duration:00:00:46
St. John Henry Newman - The Pilgrim Queen
Duration:00:01:49
St. John Henry Newman - Guardian Angel
Duration:00:02:20
St. John Henry Newman - The Golden Prison
Duration:00:01:25
St. John Henry Newman - For the Dead
Duration:00:01:21
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:32
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Patience Taught by Nature
Duration:00:01:02
John Greenleaf Whittier - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:40
John Greenleaf Whittier - From The Brewing of Soma
Duration:00:01:44
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:36
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Dante
Duration:00:00:53
Alfred Lord Tannyson - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:59
Alfred Lord Tannyson - From In Memorian
Duration:00:05:21
Alfred Lord Tannyson - St. Agnes' Eve
Duration:00:01:59
Jones Very - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:23
Jones Very - The Created
Duration:00:01:03
John Mason Neale - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:30
John Mason Neale - Oh, Give Us Back the Days of Old
Duration:00:02:28
Coventry Patmore - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:01:03
Coventry Patmore - The Toys
Duration:00:01:51
Coventry Patmore - Magna Est Veritas
Duration:00:00:51
George MacDonald - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:33
George MacDonald - That Holy Thing
Duration:00:00:42
George MacDonald - From An Old Story
Duration:00:00:31
George MacDonald - From Diary of an Old Soul
Duration:00:03:03
George MacDonald - Mary Magdalene
Duration:00:02:15
Thomas Edward Brown - Historical Note
Duration:00:00:08
Thomas Edward Brown - My Garden
Duration:00:00:33
Christina Rosetti - Biographical Sketch
Duration:00:00:54
Christina Rosetti - A Christmas Carol
Duration:00:01:38
Christina Rosetti - St. Peter
Duration:00:01:02
Christina Rosetti - Mary Magdalene
Duration:00:01:03
Christina Rosetti - Are Ye Not Much Better Than They
Duration:00:00:43
Christina Rosetti - St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Duration:00:00:53
Christina Rosetti - The Voice of My Beloved
Duration:00:00:29