Religious and devotional poetry books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
The Divine Comedy
Dante AlighieriA journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise that frames moral judgment and divine order in terza rima.
Paradise Lost
John MiltonA blank-verse epic retelling the Fall of Man, with Satan, Adam, and Eve at its center.
Holy Sonnets
John DonneSonnets that argue with God, moving between fear of damnation and hope for grace.
The Temple
George HerbertShort devotional lyrics that work through doubt and faith, several shaped on the page like altars or wings.
Divine Songs for Children
Isaac WattsSimple rhymed hymns for children teaching moral lessons, long used in schools and nurseries.
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- The Cherubinic Wanderer
The Cherubinic WandererAngelus Silesius - Poems
PoemsGerard Manley Hopkins - Ash-Wednesday
Ash-WednesdayT. S. Eliot - Technicians of the Sacred
Technicians of the SacredJerome Rothenberg - Songs of the Saints of India
Songs of the Saints of IndiaJohn Stratton Hawley - The Enlightened Heart
The Enlightened HeartStephen Mitchell - Sounding the Seasons
Sounding the SeasonsMalcolm Guite - My Bright Abyss
My Bright AbyssChristian Wiman - The Inferno
The InfernoDante Alighieri1767 - Footprints
FootprintsMargaret Fishback Powers1993 - The poems of St. John of the Cross
The poems of St. John of the CrossJohn of the Cross1933 - A house of gentlefolk
A house of gentlefolkIvan Sergeevich Turgenev1869