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A large body of poetry speaks to the spiritual aspects of human life. These poems talk about the creator or our relationship to Him.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. - Carl Sandburg

1. Ode by Joseph Addison

   Th'unwearied sun from day to day
   Does his Creator's pow'r display,
   

2. Nearer My God to Thee by Sarah Flower Adams
3. No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Bronte
4. 'There Is No God,' the Wicked Saith by Arthur Hugh Clough
5. Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

   thoughts to a child on what his life will hold

6. Olney Hymns by William Cowper
7. Chartless by Emily Dickinson
8. Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

   death's power is shown to be empty

9. Batter my heart, three-personed God by John Donne
10. He Is Our Peace by William Byron Forbush
11. The Collar by George Herbert

    on going one's own way

12. The Flower by George Herbert
13. The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul
    

14. Thou Art Indeed Just, O Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
15. God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
16. Doors of the Temple by Aldous Huxley

    on worshipping God, not the gates that lead to His house

17. Amazing Grace by John Newton
18. The Dying Christian To His Soul by Alexander Pope
19. The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
20. The New Birth by Jones Very

    comparing the old life to the new