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American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom

More than 200 poets from the past four centuries

“A classic . . . indispensable.” —The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, author of The Good Book

Overview
News & Views
Table of Contents
Contributors

Overview
Interviews The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: David Waldstreicher on a revolutionary poet
March 13, 2023

Interviews Anthony Hunt on the collected Gary Snyder: “His poems move us, drive us back to our fundamental roots”
September 6, 2022

Interviews Remembering John Ashbery: LOA’s 2008 interview
June 8, 2022
No more profound and intimate expression of America’s spiritual life can be found than the work of its poets. From Anne Bradstreet to the Beats, from Native American chant and Shaker hymnody to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, religion and spirituality have always been central to American poetry. In this unique anthology, world-renowned scholar Harold Bloom weaves a tapestry from the many strands of American religious experience and practice: the searching meditations of Puritan pioneers, the evangelical fervor of the Great Awakenings, the mystical currents of Transcendentalism, the diverse influences of the world religions that have taken root in modern America.

Spanning four centuries and more than 200 poets, American Religious Poems is a bountiful and moving gathering of voices that offers countless moments of inspiration, solace, meditation, and transcendence. The poems in this unprecedented volume are a lasting testimony to the American spirit and its unremitting quest for ultimate truth and meaning.

This deluxe collector’s edition features:
- an introduction by Harold Bloom;
- a reader’s guide to significant topics and themes in the poems;
- Smyth-sewn binding and flexible, leatherette covers; and
- a ribbon page-marker.
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was the author of more than forty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; The Western Canon; and, most recently, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, and the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University. Jesse Zuba attended Princeton and Yale Universities. He teaches English at Rowan University and lives in Pitman, New Jersey.

This special publication features a custom-made slipcase, Smyth-sewn bindings, acid-free paper, and a unique design with specifications differing from those of Library of America series titles.

Project support for this volume was provided by: Lilly Endowment, Inc.
News & Views

Interviews The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: David Waldstreicher on a revolutionary poet
March 13, 2023

Interviews Anthony Hunt on the collected Gary Snyder: “His poems move us, drive us back to our fundamental roots”
September 6, 2022

Interviews Remembering John Ashbery: LOA’s 2008 interview
June 8, 2022

Interviews Love unknown: Thomas Travisano on the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
August 21, 2020

News He “lived and breathed literature”—Library of America remembers Harold Bloom, 1930–2019
November 5, 2019
Table of Contents

The Bay Psalm Book
Psalme 19

Thomas Dudley
“Dim Eyes, deaf Ears, cold stomack shew”

Roger Williams
“God gives them sleep on Ground, on Straw”
“Bòast not proud English, of thy birth & blood,”
“They see Gods wonders that are call’d”
“The Indians prize not English gold,”

Anne Bradstreet
The Flesh and the Spirit
For Delivere from a feaver
“In silent night when rest I took”
“As weary pilgrim, now at rest”

John Saffin
Consideratus Considerandus

Michael Wigglesworth
from The Day of Doom: Vanity of Vanities

Edward Taylor
from Preparatory Meditations: First Series
8. Joh. 6.51
38. I Joh. 2.1
from Preparatory Meditations: Second Series
12. Ezek. 37.24
18. Heb. 13.10
Let by rain
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Upon a Wasp Child with Cold
Huswifery
The Ebb and Flow
A Fig for thee Oh! Death

Benjamin Tompson
“A Neighbour’s Tears”

Nicholas Noyes
“A Consolatory Poem Dedicated unto Mr. Cotton Mather”

John Norton Jr.
“A Funeral Elogy”

Cotton Mather
The Rain gasped for

Mather Byles
“Great GOD, how frail a Thing is Man!”

William Billings
Chester
An Anthem, for Thanksgiving: Psalm 148.

Timothy Dwight
from The Triumph of Infidelity

Philip Freneau
On the Religion of Nature

Phillis Wheatley
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations

John Leland
“The day is past and gone”

Joel Barlow
from The Columbiad

John Quincy Adams
O Lord, Thy All-Discerning Eyes

Richard Henry Dana Sr.
The Little Beach-Bird

Emma Hart Willard
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep

Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Coral Insect

William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Forest Hymn
Hymn of the Waldenses
George Washington Doane
Evening

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Problem
The Rhodora
Dirge
Brahma
Boston Hymn
Gnwqi Seauton
“There is in all the sons of men”
“I will not live out of me”
“He walked the streets of great New York”
“Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Bridge
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Christmas Bells
My Cathedral

John Greenleaf Whittier
First-Day Thoughts
The Eternal Goodness
Unity

Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Chambered Nautilus
The Living Temple

Edmund Hamilton Sears
“It came upon the midnight clear,”

Christopher Pearse Cranch
Correspondences
Enosis
Jones Very
The New Birth
Enoch
The Cup
The New World
The Created
Yourself
The Cottage
Autumn Flowers
The Origin of Man
Night

William Ellery Channing
Hymn of the Earth

Henry David Thoreau
Sic Vita
Music
Inspiration

Julia Ward Howe
Battle-Hymn of the Republic

James Russell Lowell
After the Burial

Herman Melville
from Moby-Dick
from Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
The Enthusiast
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
Pontoosuce

Walt Whitman
“In vain were nails driven through my hands.”
from Song of Myself
from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
As Adam Early in the Morning
Chanting the Square Deific
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Sonnets
“Not the round natural world, not the deep mind,”

Robert Lowry
Beautiful River

Emily Dickinson
“I got so I could take his name — ”
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,”
“I know that He exists.”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes — ”
“Dare you see a Soul at the ‘White Heat’?”
“Our journey had advanced — ”
“It might be lonelier”
“I heard a Fly buzz — when I died — ”
“To pile like Thunder to it’s close”
“‘Heavenly Father’ — take to thee”
“The Spirit lasts — but in what mode — ”
“My life closed twice before it’s close;”

Helen Hunt Jackson
A Last Prayer
Knowles Shaw
Sowing in the Morning

Phillips Brooks
O Little Town of Bethlehem

Sanford F. Bennett
“There’s a land that is fairer than day,”

William Dean Howells
What Shall It Profit?

Sidney Lanier
A Ballad of Trees and the Master

John Banister Tabb
Nekros
Communion
Tenebrae

Emma Lazarus
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport
The New Ezekiel

Edwin Markham
In Death Valley

Lizette Woodworth Reese
Trust
This Very Hour

Edith Wharton
Terminus

W.E B. Du Bois
A Litany at Atlanta

Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Children of the Night
Karma

James Weldon Johnson
The Creation

Paul Laurence Dunbar
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Religion

Vincent O’Sullivan
Out of the Cloud

Trumbull Stickney
“He said: ‘If in his image I was made,”
“And, the last day being come, Man stood alone”

Anna Hempstead Branch
In the Beginning Was the Word

Robert Frost
A Prayer in Spring
Bereft
Design
Once by the Pacific
Directive

Ameen Rihani
The Song of Siva
Renunciation
A Sufi Song

Carl Sandburg
Our Prayer of Thanks
For You

William Stanley Braithwaite
The Eternal Self

Vachel Lindsay
General William Booth Enters Heaven
The Unpardonable Sin

Wallace Stevens
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
Sunday Morning
God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night
Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
Angel Surrounded by Paysans
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Of Mere Being

Kahlil Gibran
O Soul

William Carlos Williams
Burning the Christmas Greens
The Gift

Sara Teasdale
The Sanctuary

H.D.
from The Walls Do Not Fall
from The Flowering of the Rod

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Memento Mori
The Will

Robinson Jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic
Apology for Bad Dreams

Hurt Hawks
The Treasure

Marianne Moore
The Steeple-Jack

Elinor Wylie
Address to My Soul

T. S. Eliot
The Hippopotamus
Ash-Wednesday
Journey of the Magi
A Song for Simeon
Little Gidding

H. Leivick
The Sturdy in Me

John Crowe Ransom
Armageddon

Conrad Aiken
Tetélestai

Mikhail Naimy
Autumn Leaves

Claude McKay
I Know My Soul
Russian Cathedral

Edna St. Vincent Millay
God’s World

Samuel Greenberg
God

E. E. Cummings
“i thank You God for this amazing”

Charles Reznikoff
Luzzato
Spinoza
“There is nobody in the street”

Jean Toomer
Prayer
The Gods Are Here

Jacob Glatshteyn
Without Offerings

Louise Bogan
Night

John Wheelwright
Fish Food
Come Over and Help Us
Bread-Word Giver

Melvin B. Tolson
A Song for Myself

Léonie Adams
Bell Tower

Hart Crane
Lachrymae Christi
from Voyages
from The Bridge
O Carib Isle!
The Broken Tower

Thomas A. Dorsey
Take My Hand, Precious Lord

Allen Tate
The Cross
The Twelve
Sonnets at Christmas

Sterling A. Brown
Sister Lou

Laura Riding
There Is No Land Yet
Faith Upon the Waters

Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Prayer
Heaven
Countee Cullen
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
The Litany of the Dark People

Carl Rakosi
Meditation (“Three things remind me of You,”)
Meditation (“How long will you remain a boy?”)

Richard Eberhart
The Groundhog
The Soul Longs to Return Whence It Came

Louis Zukofsky
from “A” — 12

Stanley Kunitz
Benediction

Kenneth Rexroth
The Signature of All Things

Robert Penn Warren
Evening Hawk
Heart of Autumn

W. H. Auden
from Horae Canonicae

George Oppen
Psalm

Theodore Roethke
The Waking
In a Dark Time

James Agee
“This little time the breath and bulk of being”

Elizabeth Bishop
The Unbeliever
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
At the Fishhouses

William Everson
A Canticle to the Waterbirds

Jean Garrigue
A Demon Came to Me

Robert Hayden
“From the corpse woodpiles, from the ashes”
Bahà’u’lláh in the Garden of Ridwan
The Broken Dark
Ice Storm
“As my blood was drawn,”

John Frederick Nims
Prayer
The Dark Night
Knowledge of God

Muriel Rukeyser
Are You Born? / I
Are You Born? / II

Delmore Schwartz
At a Solemn Musick

Karl Shapiro
The Alphabet

May Swenson
Question
The Lightning
Big-Hipped Nature
Each Like a Leaf

John Berryman
Eleven Addresses to the Lord

David Ignatow
Kaddish

Randall Jarrell
Jonah

William Stafford
With My Crowbar Key

Thomas Merton
St. Paul
In Silence
Elegy for the Monastery Barn

Robert Lowell
Where the Rainbow Ends

William Bronk
Virgin and Child with Music and Numbers
The Mind’s Limitations Are Its Freedom

Robert Duncan
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
The Natural Doctrine
God-Spell

Amy Clampitt
A Procession at Candlemas
Easter Morning
Brought From Beyond
A Silence

Howard Nemerov
The Loon’s Cry

Richard Wilbur
“A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness”
Advice to a Prophet
A Christmas Hymn
In a Churchyard
The Proof

James Dickey
Adam in Winter
Walking on Water

Alan Dugan
Love Song: I and Thou

Anthony Hecht
A Hill
Adam
Saul and David

Richard Hugo
St. Clement’s: Harris

Denise Levertov
The Jacob’s Ladder
Flickering Mind
Suspended

James Schuyler
Our Father

James Baldwin
Amen

Edgar Bowers
From William Tyndale to John Frith
Adam
Jacob
Jack Gilbert
The White Heart of God

Carolyn Kizer
Shalimar Gardens

Kenneth Koch
Alive for an Instant

Samuel Menashe
Paradise — After Giovanni di Paolo

Gerald Stern
Lord, Forgive a Spirit

A. R. Ammons
Prodigal
Terrain
The City Limits
The Arc Inside and Out
For Harold Bloom
Easter Morning

Robert Bly
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars

Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra
Psalm III
Wales Visitation

James Merrill
An Upward Look

John Ashbery
The Recital
Syringa
By Forced Marches

Galway Kinnell
To Christ Our Lord

W. S. Merwin
Lemuel’s Blessing
Noah’s Raven
Fourth Psalm: The Cerements
The Blind Seer of Ambon

James Wright
The Refusal
A Blessing
Saint Judas

Donald Hall
A Small Fig Tree
A Grace

Samuel Hazo
The Holy Surprise of Right Now

Philip Levine
A Late Answer
To My God in His Sickness

Cynthia Ozick
“When that with tragic rapture Moses stood . . .”

Anne Sexton
Rowing
Joseph Awad
For Jude’s Lebanon

Alvin Feinman
Pilgrim Heights
November Sunday Morning

John Hollander
At the New Year
Adam’s Task
A Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land

Gary Snyder
Milton by Firelight
Burning Island
Ripples on the Surface

Allen Grossman
The Song of the Lord

Sylvia Plath
Black Rook in Rainy Weather

N. Scott Momaday
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
Carriers of the Dream Wheel

Mark Strand
White
Orpheus Alone
from Dark Harbor

James Applewhite
The Sex of Divinity

Ronald Johnson
from ARK: Beam 30, The Garden

Mary Oliver
When Death Comes

Grace Schulman
Blessed Is the Light
Prayer

Charles Wright
Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Jay Wright
The Origin of Mary in a Cathedral Choir
Desire’s Persistence

Lucille Clifton
the astrologer predicts at mary’s birth
anna speaks of the childhood of mary her daughter
mary’s dream
how he is coming then
holy night
a song of mary
island mary
“mary mary astonished by God”

C. K. Williams
The Vessel

Michael S. Harper
Peace on Earth

Charles Simic
Mystic Life

Frank Bidart
The Sacrifice

Paul Mariani
Giottoesque

Robert Pinsky
The Knight’s Prayer

Simon J. Ortiz
The Creation, According to Coyote

Alfred Corn
Jerusalem

Louise Glück
Lamentations
Matins
Vespers

Michael Palmer
Untitled (September ’92)

J. D. McClatchy
Dervish

Carol Muske-Dukes
When He Fell

Vicki Hearne
Good Friday: No Way Out but Straight Through, Jack
The Leisure of God

Linda Hogan
Me, Crow, Fish, and the Magi
The Inside of Things

Jane Kenyon
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks

Yusef Komunyakaa
Thanks

Geoffrey O’Brien
The Prophet

Agha Shahid Ali
First Day of Spring
God
Tonight

Edward Hirsch
Away from Dogma

James Richardson
Evening Prayer

Arthur Sze
The Unnamable River

Chase Twichell
Cloud of Unknowing

Bill Wadsworth
The Authority of Elsewhere

Jorie Graham
Prayer

Joy Harjo
A Map to the Next World

Garrett Hongo
O-Bon: Dance for the Dead
Volcano House

Andrew Hudgins
Christ as a Gardener

Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Campesino’s Lament

Chard DeNiord
Transubstantiation

Rita Dove
Receiving the Stigmata

Mark Jarman
Transfiguration

Naomi Shihab Nye
My Uncle Mohammed at Mecca, 1981

Alberto Ríos
The Death of Anselmo Luna

Alan Shapiro
Prayer on the Temple Steps
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Supernatural Love

Rosanna Warren
Hagar
Cyprian
Antique

Scott Cairns
Prospect of the Interior

Louise Erdrich
New Vows

Thylias Moss
The Warmth of Hot Chocolate
A Man

John Burt
On the Will to Believe
Sonnets for Mary of Nazareth

Robert Vasquez
Belief

Susan Wheeler
That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour

April Bernard
Psalm of the Tree-Dweller

Lucie Brock-Broido
The One Theme of Which Everything Else Is a Variation

Henri Cole
Apollo
Presepio
Blur

Dionisio D. Martinez
Standard Time: Novena for My Father

Joseph Harrison
The Relic
Li-Young Lee
This Hour and What Is Dead
Night Mirror

Esther Schor
Alef

Carl Phillips
Visitation
A Great Noise
From the Devotions

Josephine Singer
Provision

David Woo
Eden
Ballad of Infinite Forgetfulness

David Daniel
Seven-Star Bird

Martha Serpas
As If There Were Only One
Witness Tree
Psalm at High Tide
Poem Found

Khaled Mattawa
I Was Buried in Janzoor

Suji Kwock Kim
The Tree of Unknowing

Brett Foster
The First Request of Lazarus

American Indian Songs and Chants
The Thanksgivings (Iroquois)
This Is to Frighten a Storm (Cherokee)
To Go to the Water (Cherokee)
Is This Real (Pawnee)
Ghost-Dance Songs (Kiowa)
Therefore I Must Tell the Truth (Navajo)
from The Night Chant (Navajo)
Song of the Sky Loom (Tewa)
Prayer to the Deceased (Tewa)
The Creation of the Earth (Pima)
Special Request for the Children of Mother Corn (Zuni)
Deer Song (Yaqui)
Shaman’s Song (Modoc)
Shaman’s Song (Inuit)

Spirituals and Anonymous Hymns
Balm in Gilead
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Free at Last
Got a Home in That Rock
I Know Moon-Rise
Let My People Go
Lonesome Valley
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Had
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Simple Gifts
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Steal Away
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Reader’s Guide

Sources and Acknowledgments

Notes

Index of Poets

Index of Titles and First Lines
Contributors

John Quincy Adams
Léonie Adams
James Agee
Conrad Aiken
Agha Shalid Ali
A. R. Ammons
James Applewhite
John Ashbery
W. H. Auden
Joseph Awad
James Baldwin
Joel Barlow
Sanford F. Bennett
April Bernard
John Berryman
Frank Bidart
William Billings
Elizabeth Bishop
Robert Bly
Louise Bogan
Edgar Powers
Anne Bradstreet
William Stanley Braithwaite
Anna Hempstead Branch
Lucie Brock-Broido
William Bronk
Phillips Brooks
Sterling A. Brown
William Cullen Bryant
John Burt
Mather Byles
Scott Cairns
William Ellery Channing
Amy Clampitt
Lucille Clifton
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Henri Cole
Alfred Corn
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Hart Crane
Countee Cullen
E. E. Cummings
Richard Henry Dana
David Daniel
Chard DeNiord
James Dickey
Emily Dickinson
George W. Doane
Thomas A. Dorsey
Rita Dove
W. E. B. Du Bois
Thomas Dudley
Alan Dugan
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Duncan
Timothy Dwight
Richard Eberhart
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louise Erdich
William Everson
Alvin Feinman
Brett Foster
Philip Freneau
Robert Frost
Jean Garrigue
Kahlil Gibran
Jack Gilbert
Allen Ginsberg
Jacob Glatshteyn
Louise Glück
Jorie Graham
Samuel Greenberg
Allen Grossman
H. D.
Donald Hall
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Joy Harjo
Michael S. Harper
Joseph Harrison
Robert Hayden
Samuel Hazo
Vicki Hearne
Anthony Hecht
Edward Hirsch
Linda Hogan
John Hollander
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Garrett Hongo
Julia Ward Howe
William Dean Howells
Andrew Hudgins
Langston Hughes
Richard Hugo
David Ignatow
Helen Hunt Jackson
Mark Jarman
Randall Jarrell
Robinson Jeffers
James Weldon Johnson
Ronald Johnson
Jane Kenyon
Suji Kwock Kim
Galway Kinnell
Caroline Kizer
Kenneth Koch
Yusef Komunyakaa
Stanley Kunitz
Sidney Lanier
Emma Lazarus
Li-Young Lee
H. Leivick
John Leland
Denise Levertov
Philip Levine
Vachel Lindsay
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowry
Paul Mariani
Edwin Markham
Dionisio D. Martinez
Cotton Mather
Khaled Mattawa
J. D. McClatchy
Claude McKay
Herman Melville
Samuel Menashe
James Merrill
Thomas Merton
W. S. Merwin
Edna St. Vincent Millay
N. Scott Momaday
Marianne Moore
Thylias Moss
Carol Muske-Dukes
Mikhail Naimy
Howard Nemerov
John Frederick Nims
John Norton Jr.
Nicholas Noyes
Naomi Shihbab
Geoffrey O’Brien
Mary Oliver
George Oppen
Simon J. Ortiz
Vincent O’Sullivan
Cynthia Ozick
Michael Palmer
Carl Phillips
Robert Pinsky
Sylvia Plath
Carl Rakosi
John Crowe Ransom
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Kenneth Rexroth
Charles Reznikoff
James Richardson
Laura Riding
Ameen Rihani
Alberto Rios
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Theodore Roethke
Muriel Rukeyser
John Saffin
Carl Sandburg
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Esther Schor
James Schuyler
Delmore Schwartz
Edward Hamilton Sears
Martha Serpas
Anne Sexton
Alan Shapiro
Karl Shapiro
Knowles Shaw
Grace Shulman
Lydia H. Sigourney
Charles Simic
Josephine Singer
Gary Snyder
William Stafford
Gerald Stern
Wallace Stevens
Trumbull Stickney
Mark Strand
May Swenson
Arthur Sze
John Bannister Tabb
Allen Tate
Edward Taylor
Sara Teasdale
Henry David Thoreau
Melvin B. Tolson
Benjamin Tompson
Jean Toomer
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Chase Twichell
Robert Vasquez
Jones Very
Bill Wadsworth
Robert Penn Warren
Rosanna Warren
Edith Wharton
Phillis Wheatley
Susan Wheeler
John Wheelwright
Walt Whitman
John Greenleaf Whittier
Michael Wigglesworth
Richard Wilbur
Emma Hart Willard
C. K. Williams
Roger Williams
William Carlos Williams
David Woo
Charles Wright
James Wright
Jay Wright
Elinor Wylie
Louis Zukofsky

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