First linesJohn Henry Newman

  1. All is divine The Queen of Seasons
  2. All tender lights, all hues divine Matins⁠—Thursday
  3. All-bountiful Creator, who, Vespers⁠—Tuesday
  4. And would’st thou reach, rash scholar mine, Zeal and Love
  5. Are these the tracks of some unearthly Friend, Angelic Guidance
  6. As, when the hand some mimic form would paint, The Married and the Single
  7. Banish’d the House of sacred rest, Behind the Veil
  8. Between two comrades dear, Ethelwald
  9. Bide thou thy time! The Patient Church
  10. Birthday gifts, with the early year, Epiphany-Eve
  11. Bloom, beloved Flower!⁠— The Winter Flower
  12. Cease, Stranger, cease those piercing notes, The Isles of the Sirens
  13. Christ bade His followers take the sword; Zeal and Meekness
  14. Come, Holy Ghost, who ever One Terce
  15. Could I hit on a theme Seeds in the Air
  16. Creator of the starry pole, Advent⁠—Vespers
  17. Day’s herald bird Lauds⁠—Tuesday
  18. Dear Frank, this morn has usher’d in To F. W. N.
  19. Death was full urgent with thee, Sister dear, Consolations in Bereavement
  20. Deep in his meditative bower, Jonah
  21. Did we but see, Our Future
  22. Do not their souls, who ’neath the Altar wait Separation of Friends
  23. Each trial has its weight; which, whoso bears Vexations
  24. Ere yet I left home’s youthful shrine, Wanderings
  25. Faint not, and fret not, for threaten’d woe, The Watchman
  26. Fair Cousin, thy page Opusculum
  27. Father of Lights, by whom each day Vespers⁠—Sunday
  28. Father of mercies infinite, Matins⁠—Saturday
  29. Framer of the earth and sky, Lauds⁠—Sunday
  30. France! I will think of thee as what thou wast, Apostacy
  31. “Give any boon for peace! Warfare
  32. Glory of the eternal Heaven, Lauds⁠—Friday
  33. Green are the leaves, and sweet the flowers, The Month of Mary
  34. Hark, a joyful voice is thrilling, Advent⁠—Lauds
  35. Haunting gloom and flitting shades, Lauds⁠—Wednesday
  36. Help, Lord, the souls which Thou hast made, For the Dead
  37. Hid are the saints of God;⁠— The Hidden Ones
  38. How can I keep my Christmas feast Christmas Without Christ
  39. How didst thou start, Thou Holy Baptist, bid Pusillanimity
  40. How shall a child of God fulfil The Witness
  41. I am a harp of many chords, and each Introduction to an Album
  42. I am rooted in the wall Snapdragon
  43. I ask not for fortune, for silken attire, St. Philip in His Disciples
  44. I bear upon my brow the sign The Brand of Cain
  45. I bow at Jesu’s name, for ’tis the Sign Reverence
  46. I dream’d that, with a passionate complaint, St. Paul
  47. I have been honour’d and obey’d, Humiliation
  48. I rise and raise my clasped hands to Thee! Morning
  49. I sat beneath an olive’s branches grey, Corcyra
  50. I saw thee once and nought discern’d Transfiguration
  51. If e’er I fall beneath Thy rod, Judgment
  52. In childhood, when with eager eyes The Trance of Time
  53. In service o’er the Mystic Feast I stand; The Priestly Office
  54. In the far North our lot is cast, St. Philip Neri in His Mission
  55. Jesu, Maria⁠—I am near to death, The Dream of Gerontius
  56. Ladies, well I deem, delight My Lady Nature and Her Daughters
  57. Latest born of Jesse’s race, The Call of David
  58. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom The Pillar of the Cloud
  59. Let heathen sing thy heathen praise, The Greek Fathers
  60. Let the sun summon all his beams to hold My Birthday
  61. Let us arise, and watch by night, Matins⁠—Sunday
  62. Light of the anxious heart, The Transfiguration⁠—Lauds
  63. Little maiden, dost thou pine Valentine to a Little Girl
  64. Lord of unbounded space, Vespers⁠—Monday
  65. Lord, in this dust Thy sovereign voice Thanksgiving
  66. “Man goeth forth” with reckless trust Nature and Art
  67. Man is permitted much The Elements
  68. Many the guileless years the Patriarch spent, Isaac
  69. May the dread Three in One, who sways Matins⁠—Friday
  70. ’Mid Balak’s magic fires Heathenism
  71. Mortal! if e’er thy spirits faint, Penance
  72. Moses, the patriot fierce, became Moses
  73. My Father’s hope! my childhood’s dream! The Death of Moses
  74. My home is now a thousand miles away; Memory
  75. My oldest friend, mine from the hour Guardian Angel
  76. My smile is bright, my glance is free, The Scars of Sin
  77. Now is the Autumn of the Tree of Life; Progress of Unbelief
  78. Now that the day-light dies away, Compline
  79. Now that the day-star glimmers bright, Prime
  80. O aged Saint! far off I heard The Saint and the Hero
  81. O comrade bold of toil and pain! Zeal and Patience
  82. O Father, list a sinner’s call! Absolution
  83. O God from God, and Light from Light, Matins⁠—Tuesday
  84. O God, of Thy soldiers For a Martyr
  85. O God, unchangeable and true, None
  86. O God, who canst not change nor fail, Sext
  87. O God, who hast given Vespers⁠—Thursday
  88. O heart of fire! misjudged by wilful man, David and Jonathan
  89. O Holiest Truth! how have I lied to Thee! Evening
  90. O holy Lord, who with the Children Three Temptation
  91. O Lord and Christ, Thy Children of the South Superstition
  92. O Lord, who, thron’d in the holy height, Vespers⁠—Wednesday
  93. O Lord! when sin’s close-marshall’d line A Word in Season
  94. O piteous race! Judaism
  95. O prophet, tell me not of peace, Bondage
  96. O purest Symbol of the Eternal Son! Joseph
  97. O rail not at our kindred in the North, Samaria
  98. O that Thou wouldest rend the breadth of sky, Paraphrase of Isaiah 64
  99. O Thou, of shepherds Prince and Head, For a Confessor Bishop
  100. O ye who seek the Lord, The Transfiguration⁠—Matins
  101. O, say not thou art left of God, Desolation
  102. Of the Father Effluence bright, Lauds⁠—Monday
  103. Oh that thy creed were sound! The Good Samaritan
  104. Oh! miserable power Dreams
  105. Once cast with men of language strange The Gift of Tongues
  106. Once, as I brooded o’er my guilty state, The Gift of Preserverance
  107. Once, o’er a clear calm pool, To Edward Caswall
  108. One only, of God’s messengers to man, Day-Labourers
  109. Paler have grown the shades of night, Lauds⁠—Sunday
  110. Peace-loving man, of humble heart and true St. Gregory Nazianzen
  111. Philip, on thee the glowing ray St. Philip in His God
  112. Poor wand’rers, ye are sore distress’d Private Judgment
  113. Prune thou thy words, the thoughts control Flowers Without Fruit
  114. Say, hast thou track’d a traveller’s round, Taormini
  115. Say, who is he in deserts seen, Persecution
  116. Secure in his prophetic strength, St. Paul at Melita
  117. See, the golden dawn is glowing, Lauds⁠—Thursday
  118. She is not gone;⁠—still in our sight A Picture
  119. Sleep has refresh’d our limbs, we spring Matins⁠—Monday
  120. Some one whisper’d yesterday, A Hermitage
  121. Souls of the Just, I call not you Sympathy
  122. Supernal Word, proceeding from Advent⁠—Matins
  123. The Angel-lights of Christmas morn, Candlemas
  124. The ark of God has hidden strength; Uzzah and Obed-Edom
  125. The better portion didst thou choose, Great Heart, Abraham
  126. The Church shone brightly in her youthful days Sacrilege
  127. The dawn is sprinkled o’er the sky, Lauds⁠—Saturday
  128. “The Fathers are in dust, yet live to God:”⁠— Relics of Saints
  129. The holy Monks, conceal’d from men, St. Philip in Himself
  130. The number of Thine own complete, A Martyr Convert
  131. The red sun is gone, Vespers⁠—Saturday
  132. The time has been, it seem’d a precept plain The Religion of Cain
  133. The world has cycles in its course, when all Faith Against Sight
  134. There is in stillness oft a magic power Solitude
  135. There is not on the earth a soul so base The Power of Prayer
  136. There sat a Lady The Pilgrim Queen
  137. There stray’d awhile, amid the woods of Dart, The Pilgrim
  138. They are at rest: Waiting for the Morning
  139. They do but grope in learning’s pedant round, Substance and Shadow
  140. This is the Saint of gentleness and kindness, St. Philip in His School
  141. Thou champion high St. Michael
  142. Thou to wax fierce Zeal and Purity
  143. Thrice bless’d are they, who feel their loneliness; Melchizedek
  144. Thy words are good, and freely given, Fair Words
  145. Time was, I shrank from what was right Sensitiveness
  146. ’Tis long, dear Annie, since we met, Kind Remembrances
  147. To-day the Blessed Three in One Matins⁠—Sunday
  148. Two brothers freely cast their lot James and John
  149. Tyre of the West, and glorying in the name England
  150. Unveil, O Lord, and on us shine The Two Worlds
  151. Unwearied God, before whose face Sleeplessness
  152. We are not children of a guilty sire, Hope
  153. Weep not for me, when I am gone, The Golden Prison
  154. Weep not for me;⁠— A Voice from Afar
  155. What Attic Terence wrote of old for Rome, Prologus in Phormionem
  156. What time my heart unfolded its fresh leaves A Blight
  157. When first earth’s rulers welcomed home External Religion
  158. When first God stirr’d me, and the Church’s word The Wrath to Come
  159. When Heaven sends sorrow, Warnings
  160. When I am sad, I say, Declension
  161. When I look back upon my former race, Semita Justorum
  162. When I sink down in gloom or fear, Consolation
  163. When I would search the truths that in me burn, The Age to Come
  164. When mirth is full and free, Reverses
  165. When royal Truth, released from mortal throes, The Course of Truth
  166. Whence is this awe, by stillness spread The Haven
  167. Whene’er across this sinful flesh of mine The Sign of the Cross
  168. Whene’er goes forth Thy dread command, Hora Novissima
  169. Where are the Islands of the Blest? Heathen Greece
  170. Where’er I roam in this fair English land, Home
  171. While Moses on the Mountain lay, Intercession of the Saints
  172. Who madest all and dost control, Matins⁠—Wednesday
  173. Whom all obey⁠— Vespers⁠—Friday
  174. Why loiterest within Simon’s walls, The Church in Prayer
  175. Why, dear Cousin, Monks
  176. Why, wedded to the Lord, still yearns my heart Messina
  177. “Woe’s me!” the peaceful prophet cried, Jeremiah
  178. Ye cannot halve the Gospel of God’s grace; Liberalism

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