"Here was a man who seemed to me to excel all the authors I had read in conveying the very quality of life as we live it from moment to moment, but the wretched fellow, instead of doing it all directly, insisted on mediating it through what I still would have called the "Christian mythology." The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed, "Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores." -C. S. Lewis
	The Temple (1633) Complete - J.R. Arner A Dialogue-Anthem A True Hymn A Wreath Aaron Affliction (I) Affliction (II) Affliction (III) Affliction (IV) Antiphon (I) Christmas Church-music Colossians 3.3 Death Dialogue Discipline Dullness Easter Easter Wings Even-song Faith Grief H. Baptisme (I) H. Baptisme (II)		Heaven Jordan (I) Jordan (II) Joseph's Coat Life Love (I) Love (II) Love (III) Love-Joy Man Mary Magdalen Mortification Peace Prayer (I) Prayer (II) Redemption Sepulchre Sinne (I) Sinne (II) Vanity (I) Virtue The Agony The Answer		The British Church The Call The Church-floor The Collar The Dawning The Elixir The Foil The Glance The Holdfast The Holy Scriptures I The Holy Scriptures II The Pearl The Pilgrimage The Pulley The Quiddity The Quip The Search The Sinner The Son The Storm The Temper (I) The Temper (II) The Windows
Poems not included in The Temple [Sonnet (I)] [Sonnet (II)] A Priest to the Temple, or The Country Parson  (1652) Complete - Project Canterbury Other Finnish Translation of Love (III) - Matti Nevalainen

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