Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | I. The Divine Element—(God, Christ, the Holy Spirit) | | Hope of the Human Heart | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | From “Anima Mundi”
GOD is good, | |
| And flight is destined for the callow wing, | |
| And the high appetite implies the food, | |
| And souls most reach the level whence they spring; | |
| O Life of very life! set free our powers, | 5 |
| Hasten the travail of the yearning hours. | |
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| Thou, to whom old Philosophy bent low, | |
| To the wise few mysteriously revealed; | |
| Thou, whom each humble Christian worships now, | |
| In the poor hamlet and the open field: | 10 |
| Once an idea, now Comforter and Friend, | |
| Hope of the human heart, descend, descend! | | | | |
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