Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Chronologic Index of Authors
| Anonymous. Date Unknown. | 1. | Amergin |
| Richard Rolle of Hampole. 1290?–1349. | 2. | Love is Life |
| Anonymous. ?15th century. | 3. | Quia Amore Langueo |
| Robert Southwell. ?1561–1595. | 4. | I dye alive |
| 5. | Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter | |
| Henry Constable. ?1562–?1613. | 6. | To the Blessed Sacrament |
| Joshua Sylvester. 1563–1618. | 7. | The Father |
| John Donne. 1573–1631. | 8. | Sonnet |
| 9. | From ‘The Crosse’ | |
| 10. | Resurrection, imperfect | |
| 11. | Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward | |
| 12. | A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany | |
| Phineas Fletcher. 1580–1650. | 13. | The Divine Lover |
| Robert Herrick. 1591–1674. | 14. | Eternitie |
| Francis Quarles. 1592–1644. | 15. | Christ and Our Selves |
| 16. | My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the lilies | |
| George Herbert. 1593–1633. | 17. | Easter Song |
| 18. | Affliction | |
| 19. | Man | |
| 20. | Dialogue | |
| 21. | Clasping of Hands | |
| 22. | The Pulley | |
| 23. | The Elixer | |
| 24. | The Collar | |
| Christopher Harvey. 1597–1663. | 25. | The Nativity |
| Richard Crashaw. ?1613–1649. | 26. | The Recommendation |
| 27. | To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus | |
| 28. | A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa | |
| 29. | The Flaming Heart | |
| 30. | A Song | |
| 31. | Prayer | |
| Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678. | 32. | On a Drop of Dew |
| 33. | The Coronet | |
| Henry Vaughan. 1621–1695. | 34. | The Search |
| 35. | The Retreate | |
| 36. | The Morning Watch | |
| 37. | Rules and Lessons | |
| 38. | The World | |
| 39. | The Knot | |
| 40. | The Dwelling-place | |
| 41. | Quickness | |
| Thomas Traherne. ?1636–1674. | 42. | Wonder |
| 43. | The Vision | |
| 44. | The Rapture | |
| 45. | Dumbness | |
| 46. | My Spirit | |
| 47. | Amendment | |
| 48. | The Anticipation | |
| 49. | Love | |
| 50. | An Hymn upon St. Bartholomew’s Day | |
| Isaac Watts. 1674–1748. | 51. | The Incomprehensible |
| Alexander Pope. 1688–1744. | 52. | From ‘An Essay on Man’ |
| John Byrom. 1691–1763. | 53. | A Poetical Version of a Letter from Facob Behmen |
| William Cowper. 1731–1800. | 54. | From ‘The Task’ |
| William Blake. 1757–1827. | 55. | The Divine Image |
| 56. | Night | |
| 57. | Broken Love | |
| 58. | The Everlasting Gospel | |
| 59. | The Crystal Cabinet | |
| 60. | Auguries of Innocence | |
| 61. | To Thomas Butts | |
| 62. | From ‘Milton’ | |
| 63. | From ‘Jerusalem’ | |
| William Wordsworth. 1770–1850. | 64. | From ‘The Excursion’ |
| 65. | From ‘On the Power of Sound’ | |
| 66. | Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | |
| 67. | From ‘Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey’ | |
| 68. | From ‘The Prelude’ | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772–1834. | 69. | From ‘Religious Musings’ |
| 70. | From ‘Dejection: an Ode’ | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792–1822. | 71. | Hymn to Intellectual Beauty |
| 72. | From ‘Adonais’ | |
| John Henry, Cardinal Newman. 1801–1890. | 73. | Melchizedek |
| 74. | From ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ | |
| 75. | The Pillar of the Cloud | |
| James Clarence Mangan. 1803–1849. | 76. | S. Patrick’s Hymn before Tara |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803–1882. | 77. | The Problem |
| 78. | Ode to Beauty | |
| 79. | Brahma | |
| 80. | Worship | |
| Robert Stephen Hawker. 1803–1875. | 81. | Aishah Shechinah |
| 82. | From ‘The Quest of the Sangraal’ | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1806–1861. | 83. | Chorus of Eden Spirits |
| 84. | From ‘The Soul’s Travelling’ | |
| 85. | Human Life’s Mystery | |
| 86. | From ‘Aurora Leigh’ | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin. 1807–1886. | 87. | ‘If there had anywhere’ |
| Edgar Allan Poe. 1809–1849. | 88. | The Goddess’s Song from ‘Al Aaraaf’ |
| Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton. 1809–1885. | 89. | The Sayings of Rabia |
| 90. | From ‘Ghazeles’ | |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809–1892. | 91. | St. Agnes’ Eve |
| 92. | Sir Galahad | |
| 93. | The Higher Pantheism | |
| 94. | ‘Flower in the crannied wall’ | |
| 95. | From ‘In Memoriam’ | |
| 96. | From ‘The Holy Grail’ | |
| 97. | The Human Cry | |
| 98. | From ‘The Ancient Sage’ | |
| John Stuart Blackie. 1809–1895. | 99. | All things are full of God |
| 100. | Trimurti | |
| Robert Browning. 1812–1889. | 101. | From ‘Pauline’ |
| 102. | From ‘Paracelsus’ | |
| 103. | From ‘Saul’ | |
| 104. | From ‘Easter Day’ | |
| 105. | Abt Vogler | |
| 106. | Rabbi Ben Ezra | |
| William Bell Scott. 1812–1890. | 107. | Pebbles in the Stream |
| 108. | From ‘The Year of the World’ | |
| Christopher Pearse Cranch. 1813–1892. | 109. | So far, so near |
| 110. | From ‘Ormuzd and Abriman’ | |
| Frederick William Faber. 1814–1863. | 111. | From ‘The Eternal Word’ |
| Edward Caswall. 1814–1878. | 112. | The Order of Pure Intuition |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere. 1814–1902. | 113. | Implicit Faith |
| Philip James Bailey. 1816–1902. | 114. | Knowledge |
| 115. | From ‘The Mystic’ | |
| 116. | From ‘Festus’ | |
| Emily Brontë. 1819–1848. | 117. | The Visionary |
| 118. | Last Lines | |
| Walt Whitman. 1819–1892. | 119. | From the ‘Song of the Open Road’ |
| 120. | From ‘Passage to India’ | |
| 121. | Chanting the Square Deific | |
| 122. | All is Truth | |
| 123. | Grand is the Seen | |
| Dora Greenwell. 1821–1882. | 124. | The Blade of Grass |
| Matthew Arnold. 1822–1888. | 125. | Progress |
| 126. | From ‘The Buried Life’ | |
| 127. | From ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’ | |
| 128. | From ‘Empedocles on Aetna’ | |
| Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore. 1823–1896. | 129. | Life of Life |
| 130. | Vesica Piscis | |
| 131. | Sponsa Dei | |
| 132. | To the Body | |
| Augusta Theodosia Drane. 1823–1894. | 133. | Forgotten among the Lilies |
| 134. | What the Soul Desires | |
| George Mac Donald. 1824–1905. | 135. | A Prayer for the Past |
| 136. | Approaches | |
| 137. | De Profundis | |
| 138. | Lost and Found | |
| William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh. 1824–1911. | 139. | Sonnets |
| Francis Turner Palgrave. 1825–1897. | 140. | The City of God |
| Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik. 1826–1887. | 141. | The Human Temple |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1828–1882. | 142. | The Sea-Limits |
| 143. | The Monochord | |
| George Meredith. 1828–1909. | 144. | Outer and Inner |
| Henry Nutcombe Oxenham. 1819–1888. | 145. | The Child-Christ on the Cross |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1830–1894. | 146. | Hymn, after Gabriele Rossetti |
| 147. | After Communion | |
| Thomas Edward Brown. 1830–1897. | 148. | Pain |
| 149. | My Garden | |
| 150. | Disguises | |
| 151. | Land, Ho! | |
| 152. | Specula | |
| Jean Ingelow. 1830–1897. | 153. | From ‘Scholar and Carpenter’ |
| Sir Edwin Arnold. 1832–1904. | 154. | From ‘The Light of Asia’ |
| Sir Lewis Morris. 1833–1907. | 155. | A Heathen Hymn |
| 156. | A New Orphic Hymn | |
| Richard Watson Dixon. 1833–1900. | 157. | Rapture: An Ode |
| Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel. 1834–1894. | 158. | From ‘Pan’ |
| 159. | From ‘De Profundis’ | |
| Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. 1835–1911. | 160. | From ‘Sîva’ |
| Frances Ridley Havergal. 1836–1879. | 161. | From ‘The Thoughts of God’ |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1837–1909. | 162. | Hertha |
| 163. | A Nympholept | |
| John Addington Symonds. 1840–1893. | 164. | The Vanishing Point |
| 165. | The Prism of Life | |
| 166. | Adventante Deo | |
| 167. | An Invocation | |
| Ellen Mary Clerke. 1840–1906. | 168. | The Building and Pinnacle of the Temple |
| Henry Bernard Carpenter. 1840–1900. | 169. | From ‘Liber Amoris’ |
| Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King. b. 1840. | 170. | The Bride Reluctant |
| 171. | From ‘The Disciples’ | |
| Sarah Williams. 1841–1868. | 172. | Deep-sea Soundings |
| Robert Buchanan. 1841–1901. | 173. | The Tree of Life |
| 174. | From ‘The City of Dream’ | |
| 175. | From ‘The City of Dream’ | |
| James Rhoades. b. 1841. | 176. | O Soul of Mine! |
| 177. | From ‘Out of the Silence’ | |
| Frederick William Henry Myers. 1843–1901. | 178. | Sunrise |
| 179. | A Cosmic Outlook | |
| 180. | From ‘Saint Paul’ | |
| 181. | A Last Appeal | |
| Edward Dowden. 1843–1913. | 182. | By the Window |
| 183. | Awakening | |
| 184. | Communion | |
| 185. | A New Hymn for Solitude | |
| 186. | The Secret of the Universe | |
| 187. | The Initiation | |
| 188. | Love’s Lord | |
| Frederick William Orde Ward. b. 1843. | 189. | The Beatific Vision |
| 190. | Redemption | |
| Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. 1844–1881. | 191. | The Lover |
| 192. | En Soph | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1844–1889. | 193. | The Habit of Perfection |
| 194. | God’s Grandeur | |
| 195. | Mary Mother of Divine Grace, compared to the Air we breathe | |
| Edward Carpenter. b. 1844. | 196. | By the Shore |
| 197. | Love’s Vision | |
| 198. | Over the Great City | |
| 199. | So Thin a Veil | |
| 200. | The World-Spirit | |
| Samuel Waddington. b. 1844. | 201. | A Persian Apologue |
| John Bannister Tabb. 1845–1909. | 202. | The Life-tide |
| 203. | Communion | |
| 204. | An Interpreter | |
| 205. | Christ and the Pagan | |
| 206. | All in All | |
| Emily Henrietta Hickey. b. 1845. | 207. | ‘The Greatest of these is Charity’ |
| George Barlow. 1847–1913. | 208. | The Immortal and the Mortal |
| Digby Mackworth Dolben. 1848–1867. | 209. | ‘Strange, all-absorbing Love’ |
| 210. | Flowers for the Altar | |
| Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler (Mrs. Edward Liddell). b. 1848. | 211. | In Summer Fields |
| William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903. | 212. | I am the Reaper |
| Edmund Gosse. b. 1849. | 213. | The Tide of Love |
| 214. | Old and New | |
| Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes. 1850–1906. | 215. | The Creed of My Heart |
| 216. | Nirvana | |
| 217. | La Vie Profonde | |
| 218. | The God Within | |
| Francis William Bourdillon. b. 1852. | 219. | The Chantry of the Cherubim |
| William James Dawson. b. 1854. | 220. | Inspirations |
| Edith Matilda Thomas. b. 1854. | 221. | Patmos |
| 222. | Spirit to Spirit | |
| Oscar Wilde. 1856–1900. | 223. | E Tenebris |
| 224. | From ‘Panthea’ | |
| 225. | From ‘Humanitad’ | |
| William Sharp. 1856–1902. | 226. | The Valley of Silence |
| 227. | Desire | |
| 228. | The White Peace | |
| 229. | The Rose of Flame | |
| 230. | The Mystic’s Prayer | |
| 231. | Triad | |
| Margaret Deland. b. 1857. | 232. | Life |
| Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (Robinson-Darmesteter). b. 1857. | 233. | Rhythm |
| 234. | The Idea | |
| 235. | Antiphon to the Holy Spirit | |
| May Probyn. | 236. | The Beloved |
| Sir James Rennell Rodd. b. 1858. | 237. | From ‘In Excelsis’ |
| Victor James Daley. 1858–1905. | 238. | The Voice of the Soul |
| Francis Thompson. 1859–1907. | 239. | The Hound of Heaven |
| 240. | From ‘The Mistress of Vision’ | |
| 241. | Orient Ode | |
| 242. | Assumpta Mariam | |
| 243. | The Veteran of Heaven | |
| 244. | Desiderium Indesideratum | |
| 245. | The Kingdom of God | |
| Henry Charles Beeching. | 246. | The Tree of Life |
| Arthur Edward Waite. b. 1860. | 247. | At the End of Things |
| 248. | A Ladder of Life | |
| 249. | Restoration | |
| 250. | How I came to the Sea | |
| 251. | Of Consummation | |
| 252. | The Morality of the Lost Word | |
| Archibald Lampman. 1861–1899. | 253. | The Clearer Self |
| 254. | Peccavi, Domine | |
| Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. 1861–1907. | 255. | ‘He came unto His own, and His own received Him not’ |
| 256. | Good Friday in my Heart | |
| 257. | After St. Augustine | |
| Bliss Carman. b. 1861. | 258. | Veni Creator |
| 259. | A Creature Catechism | |
| 260. | On Love | |
| Alice Meynell. b. 1847. | 261. | To a Daisy |
| 262. | Via, et Veritas, et Vita | |
| 263. | The Unknown God | |
| 264. | In Portugal, 1912 | |
| 265. | Christ in the Universe | |
| Katherine Tynan Hinkson. b. 1861. | 266. | The Beloved |
| 267. | The Flying Wheel | |
| Sir Henry Newbolt. b. 1862. | 268. | The Final Mystery |
| Arthur Christopher Benson. b. 1862. | 269. | Prayer |
| George Santayana. b. 1863. | 270. | ‘O World, thou choosest not’ |
| 271. | ‘O Martyred Spirit’ | |
| Herbert Trench. b. 1865. | 272. | Lindisfarne |
| 273. | I Seek Thee in the Heart Alone | |
| William Butler Yeats. b. 1865. | 274. | The Rose of Battle |
| 275. | To the Secret Rose | |
| Arthur Symons. b. 1865. | 276. | The Ecstasy |
| 277. | Indian Meditation | |
| 278. | The Turning Dervish | |
| Madison Julius Cawein. 1865–1914. | 279. | Sibylline |
| 280. | The Watcher on the Tower | |
| 281. | Attainment | |
| Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. b. 1866. | 282. | Anima Naturae |
| 283. | Nox Nivosa | |
| 284. | The Mystery of Light | |
| Richard Le Gallienne. b. 1866. | 285. | The Second Crucifixion |
| Laurence Housman. b. 1865. | 286. | The Continuing City |
| 287. | The Mystery of the Incarnation | |
| 288. | Love, the Tempter | |
| 289. | A Prayer for the Healing of the Wounds of Christ | |
| George William Russell (A.E.). b. 1867. | 290. | Star Teachers |
| 291. | Desire | |
| 292. | The City | |
| 293. | Krishna | |
| 294. | Unity | |
| 295. | Reconciliation | |
| Charles Weekes. b. 1867. | 296. | That |
| Dora Sigerson Shorter. b. 1866. | 297. | I am the World |
| Jane Barlow. b. 1857. | 298. | Beyond all Shores and Seas |
| 299. | One and All | |
| James Stephens. b. 1882. | 300. | The Seeker |
| 301. | The Fullness of Time | |
| 302. | The Breath of Life | |
| John Charles Earle. | 303. | Onward and Upward |
| 304. | ‘Lo, I am with you always’ | |
| 305. | ‘Found of them that sought Him not’ | |
| 306. | Bodily Extension | |
| Arthur Shearly Cripps. b. 1869. | 307. | Missa Viatoris |
| 308. | An Easter Hymn | |
| 309. | The Black Christ | |
| 310. | From ‘The Death of St. Francis’ | |
| Robert Hugh Benson. 1871–1914. | 311. | The Teresian Contemplative |
| 312. | From ‘Christian Evidences’ | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton. b. 1874. | 313. | The Holy of Holies |
| Aleister Crowley. | 314. | The Quest |
| 315. | The Neophyte | |
| 316. | The Rose and the Cross | |
| Evelyn Underhill (Mrs. Stuart Moore). b. 1875. | 317. | Immanence |
| 318. | Introversion | |
| 319. | Uxbridge Road | |
| 320. | Regnum Caelorum Vim Patitur | |
| 321. | Corpus Christi | |
| Ella Dietz. | 322. | Emanation |
| 323. | The King’s Daughter | |
| Harold Monro. b. 1879. | 324. | God |
| Alfred Noyes. b. 1880. | 325. | The Loom of Years |
| 326. | Art, the Herald | |
| 327. | The Paradox | |
| 328. | Song | |
| 329. | The Two Worlds | |
| Rachel Annand Taylor. b. 1876. | 330. | The Immortal Hour |
| 331. | The Night Obscure of the Soul | |
| 332. | The Question | |
| Anonymous. | 333. | At the Feet of Isis |
| 334. | A Ballade of the Centre | |
| John Masefield. | 335. | The Ballad of Sir Bors |
| 336. | The Seekers | |
| 337. | From ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ | |
| Michael Field. | 338. | Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| 339. | ‘Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod’ | |
| Lascelles Abercrombie. b. 1881. | 340. | Emblems of Love |
| Joseph Mary Plunkett. 1887–1916. | 341. | I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red |
| 342. | I see His Blood upon the Rose | |
| David Atwood Wasson. 1823–1887. | 343. | The Mystic |
| Clarence A. Walworth. | 344. | Musa Extatica |
| Alfred Gurney. | 345. | The New World |
| Edwin J. Ellis. | 346. | Preface to ‘Fate in Arcadia’ |
| 347. | The Wanderer | |
| John Gray. b. 1893. | 348. | The Tree of Knowledge |
| 349. | On the Holy Trinity | |
| Eugene Mason. b. 1862. | 350. | Apparition |
| Fred. G. Bowles. | 351. | Resurrection |
| 352. | An Insurgent of Art | |
| Nora Chesson. 1871–1906. | 353. | Hertha |
| Eva Gore-Booth. | 354. | The Quest |
| 355. | Harvest | |
| 356. | Form | |
| Susan Mitchell. | 357. | The Living Chalice |
| 358. | Immortality | |
| 359. | Love’s Mendicant | |
| James H. Cousins. | 360. | The Quest |
| 361. | Vision | |
| Alice Mary Buckton. | 362. | The Great Response |
| 363. | Before the Dawn | |
| Anna Bunston (Mrs. De Bary). | 364. | A Basque Peasant returning from Church |
| 365. | A Great Mystery | |
| 366. | ‘O Sovereign Lord, Thou Lover of Men’s Souls!’ | |
| 367. | Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree | |
| Darrell Figgis. | 368. | Slaibh Mor |
| Clifford Bax. b. 1886. | 369. | The Meaning of Man |
| Elsa Barker. | 370. | He who knows Love |
| 371. | The Slumberer | |
| 372. | The Mystic Rose | |
| 373. | Microprosopos | |
| Paul Hookham. | 374. | A Meditation |
| Wilfred Rowland Mary Childe. b. 1890. | 375. | Foreword |
| 376. | Turris Eburnea | |
| Sarojini Nayadu. | 377. | The Soul’s Prayer |
| 378. | In Salutation to the Eternal Peace | |
| 379. | To a Buddha seated on a Lotus | |
| R. A. Eric Shepherd. | 380. | Intimations |
| C. M. Verschoyle. | 381. | Crucifixion on the Mountain |
| 382. | The Deliverer | |
| Amy K. Clarke. | 383. | ‘Vision of Him’ |
| Ruth Temple Lindsay. | 384. | The Hunters |
| Horace Holley. | 385. | The Stricken King |
| John Oxenham. | 386. | Everymaid |
| John Spencer Muirhead. | 387. | Quiet |
| Gertrude M. Hort. | 388. | The Paradox |
| 389. | Thanksgiving | |
| Harold E. Goad. | 390. | Spring’s Sacrament |