Hymns, Poems & Prayers
Words to carry with you
Everything paired with a daily lamp, gathered in one place — 26 pieces to read slowly, aloud if you can.
Hymns
Be Thou My Vision
Irish, 8th century
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Thomas Chisholm, 1923
It Is Well with My Soul
Horatio Spafford, 1873
Come, Thou Fount
Robert Robinson, 1758
Abide With Me
Henry Francis Lyte, 1847
Holy, Holy, Holy
Reginald Heber, 1826
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Thomas Chisholm, 1923
How Great Thou Art
Carl Boberg, 1885
All Creatures of Our God and King
Francis of Assisi, 1225
The Lord's My Shepherd
Scottish Psalter, 1650
Crown Him with Many Crowns
Matthew Bridges, 1851
Poems
from 'The Summer Day'
Mary Oliver
from 'God's Grandeur'
Gerard Manley Hopkins
from 'Love (III)'
George Herbert
from 'The Pulley'
George Herbert
from 'The Brook'
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from 'The Wild Geese'
Wendell Berry
from 'The Peace of Wild Things'
Wendell Berry
from 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day'
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from 'God's World'
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Prayers