Best of
Poetry

1874

Golden Hours: Heart-hymns of the Christian Life


Elizabeth Payson Prentiss - 1874
    She was called by God to be a life-long sufferer and thus from an early age was able to touch the hearts of the brokenhearted.

The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems


James Thomson - 1874
    The City of Dreadful Night (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.