Title: The things that matter : an anthology of women's spiritual poetry /
Authors: Neuberger, Julia.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Women Religious life Poetry.; Religious poetry, English Women authors.; Religious poetry, American Women authors.
Contents: Caroline Southey -- To Death -- 'I never cast a flower away' -- Felicia Hemans -- A Father Reading the Bible -- The Child's First Grief -- To a Family Bible -- Sojourner Truth -- Ain't I a Woman? -- Harriet Martineau -- 'Arise, my soul! and urge thy flight' -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The Weeping Saviour -- The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point -- Consolation -- Memory and Hope -- Human Life's Mystery -- Sleeping and Watching -- The Soul's Expression -- Life -- Bereavement -- Grief -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mary at the Cross -- Hours of the Night -- Charlotte Bronte -- 'I now had only to retrace' -- 'Turn not now for comfort here' -- The Teacher's Monologue -- The Missionary -- On the Death of Anne Bronte -- On the Death of Emily Jane Bronte -- Emily Bronte -- Stanzas -- The Visionary (with Charlotte Bronte?) ̃-- Faith and Despondency -- The Philosopher -- Death -- 'O God of Heaven! The dream of horror' -- 'How still, how happy! These are words' -- 'The starry night shall tidings bring' -- 'How long will you remain? The midnight hour' -- 'All day I've toiled, but not with pain' -- 'I am the only being whose doom' -- 'Shall Earth no more inspire thee' -- The Prisoner -- 'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away' -- 'Riches I hold in light esteem' -- 'No coward soul is mine' -- 'In the earth, the earth, thou shalt be laid' -- 'O thy bright eyes must answer now' -- 'How beautiful the Earth is still' -- 'Fair sinks the summer evening now' -- Julia Ward Howe.