Poetry has long been a source of comfort and inspiration in times of struggle and celebration, and this carefully curated selection of nearly 100 American and British poems offers readers a profound collection of verse for those who are steadfast in their faith or those who are looking to renew it. This beautiful gift edition includes two of John Donne's "Holy Sonnets," Ben Jonson's "To the Holy Trinity," Christina Rosetti's "Wrestling," Emily Brontë's "Last Lines," and other poems by Andrew Marvell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more.

Table of Contents for Poems of Faith: Inspiring Verse for Strength and Comfort

Anonymous (c. 1539)
To the Book
The Lamentation of a Sinner

Anonymous (c. 1558)
“God be in my head”

George Gascoigne (l525?–l577)
De Profundis

Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust”

Robert Southwell (1560–1595)
A Preparative to Prayer

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621)
Psalm 139

Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
The Song of Jonah in the Whale’s Belly
A Song of the Faithful
Another Song of the Faithful for the Mercies of God

John Day (1566–1628)
Man’s Natural Infirmity

John Donne (1572–1631)
“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”
“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”

Ben Jonson (1574–1637)
Hymn to God the Father
A Prayer
To the Holy Trinity

George Sandys (1577–1643)
Psalm 42
Psalm 66

George Wither (1588–1667)
Divine Support
Well-Doing

Henry King (1591–1669)
A Penitential Hymne

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Neutrality Loathsome
To God, on His Sicknesse
Litany to the Holy Spirit

Francis Quarles (1592–1664)
“Why dost thou shade thy lovely face?”
Delight in God Only
Man’s Ingratitude
A Soliloquy
Trial Before Reward
On Man’s Two Enemies

George Herbert (1593–1632)
Denial
The Flower
Faith
The Temper
The Holy Scriptures
The Collar

Christopher Harvey (1597–1663)
Confusion
Comfort in Extremity

Thomas Heywood (d. 1641)
Search after God

Thomas Washbourne (1606–1687)
Casting All Your Care upon God, for He Careth for You

John Milton (1608–1687)
On His Blindness

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
Reason: The Use of It in Divine Matters

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
On a Drop of Dew

Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
The Pursuit
“They are all gone into the world of light!”
Cock-crowing
The Water-fall

John Bunyan (1628–1688)
The Pilgrim

Thomas Traherne (1636?–1674)
Poverty
Insatiableness

John Norris (1637–1711)
The Aspiration
The Resignation

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
Some Reflections . . . the 73rd Psalm

Thomas Shepherd (1665–1739) and John Mason (d. 1694)
For Communion with God

John Mason (d. 1694)
A Song of Praise for the Morning
A Song of Praise for Grace

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild”

Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
Faith
Taste
Hymn to the Supreme Being

John Newton (1725–1807)
The Name of Jesus
Looking at the Cross

William Cowper (1731–1800)
Walking with God
Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
The Contrite Heart
Ephraim Repenting
Peace After a Storm
Joy and Peace in Believing

Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)
A Prayer: Living and Dying

William Blake (1757–1827)
“Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau”
The Little Boy Lost

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Not seldom, clad in radiant vest”
Resolution and Independence

John Clare (1793–1864)
The Poet’s Swan-Song

John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
The Pillar of the Cloud&