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The Dream of the Rood, a work of Christian epic poetry in Old English believed to date from the 7th century, preserved in the Vercelli Book Heliand , an epic poem which retells the life of Jesus Christ in Old Saxon , alliterative verse , and like the story of a Pre-Christian Germanic tribal leader.
The Cursor Mundi (or ‘Over-runner of the World’) is an early 14th-century religious poem written in Northumbrian Middle English that presents an extensive retelling of Christian history from the Creation to Doomsday. A number of manuscripts of the poem are extant, but none of them is the original composition attributed to an unknown author ...
The Book of Job in the Bible (c. 1500 –1000 BC) – unknown author; Psalms in the Bible, hymns, poems (c. 1000 BC) – David; Life of St. Anthony English translation from Greek (c. 360) – Athanasius of Alexandria; The Life of Paulus the First Hermit English translation from Latin (c. 374 –375) – St. Jerome
Jakob Jocz – third generation Hebrew Christian; Jupiter Hammon (1711–died c. 1806) – former slave and poet from New York; Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599–1662) – English clergyman and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts; Samuel Butler (1613–1680) – author of the religious and political satire Hudibras
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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1917 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English Christian traditions, and some from other religions.
Remembrance, another poem in the same sequence, is a poem about the loss of a loved one and was reprinted in a small sixteen-page volume of the same name in 1988 by the Souvenir Press with illustrations by Richard Allen (ISBN 0-285-62876-3) The following year, the Souvenir Press published another of the poems from the collection, My Flower Garden, again in a small sixteen-page volume with ...
Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789 – 22 September 1871) was an English evangelical Anglican [1] poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is best known by two hymns, "Just As I Am" and "Thy will be done". [2] Elliott edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book (1834–1859) and The Invalid's Hymn book, 6th edition, 1854. [2]