Poems of the Inner Life (Classic Reprint)

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Nothing has been chosen which has not seemed to have the mark Of sincerity, and to show a real power of spiritual insight or feeling; and the selection has been tried by as high a standard of literary excellence as was practicable.

The difficulty, as may be supposed, has been, not to find materials for such a work, but to know how to se lect from the rich stores that were open to choose from: Those poems have, for the most part, been omitted which are contained in the numerous hymn-books and other familiar collections of sacred verse while a special pleasure has been taken in calling the reader's attention to many less-known poems, which are not unworthy to have a place side by side with those which every lover of high and noble poetry has long known and delighted in.

In the plan and arrangement of the book nothing like an accurate classification of subjects has been attempted; but a few general divisions have been adopted, which may serve so to group the poems as to avoid any manifest incongruity in the order in which they stand.

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