BIBLICAL REFERENCES IN ENGLISH

LITERATURE

The following passages occurring in the works of well-known writers in English Literature have obviously been suggested by the incidents occurring in the Book of Acts and the Pastoral Epistles of St. Paul.

The Resurrection of our Chaucer-Canterbury Tales'

Lord.

(Acts i. 3.)

-11. 180-208.

Parson's Tale'

Sir D. Lyndsay-Dialogue between Experience and a Courtier '-1. 3931.

Spenser Hymn of Heavenly Love'-ll. 109

290.

Earl of Stirling-Doomsday '-B. ii. St. 24.
Milton- Paradise Lost'-B. xii. 11. 420-466.
Drummond of Hawthornden-Flowers of Zion'
-No. 16.

Young Night Thoughts'-B. ix. Il. 170-180.
Blair The Grave'-1. 674.

Cowper Miscellaneous Poems

-

Emmaus.'

'Christ at

Keble-Christian Year'-'Christ at the Sepul-
chre.'

Alex. Smith-Minor Poems-With a Prayer.'
Mrs. Browning-Sonnet- Comfort.'
Bryant-Hymn to Death.'

Dean Stanley-Hymns-Easter Hymn.'
Dean Alford-Poems-An Easter Ode.'

Edwin Arnold-Light of the World '—B. vi.
Jean Ingelow Song for the Night of the Re-
surrection.'

The Resurrection of our
Lord-continued.

(Acts i. 3.)

The Ascension of our
Lord.
(Acts i. 4.)

Dr. W. C. Smith-Poems-Mary seeth Two
Angels.'

W. A. Newman-Poems-"The Tomb of Joseph
of Arimathea.'

T. T. Lynch-Miscellaneous Poems-'From the
Tomb of Rock.'

Genevieve Irons-Poems- Easter.'

Langland Vision of Piers Plowman'-P. xix.
1. 375.

Chaucer Troilus and Cressida '-B. v. l. 1842.
Gower Confessio Amantis'-Prologue-1. 165.
W. Dunbar-'The Resurrection and Ascension
of Christ.'

Spenser Færie Queene'-B. i. Canto i. 11. 10-
18.

Billing Five Wounds of Christe' - The
Wound in the Side.'

Henryson-"The Abbaye Walke'-'Thank God
for all.'

Southwell-Miscellaneous Poems-The Risen
Redeemer.'

Shakespeare- Antony and Cleopatra'-Act i.
Sc. 4. 1. 41.

Donne-Divine Poems-La Corona'-'Ascen-
sion.'

Ben Jonson-Poems-On the Nativitie of his

Saviour.'

Chapman-Minor Poems-Of Sudden Death.'
Milton-Paradise Lost'-B. x. 11. 182-195.
Jeremy Taylor-Festival Poems-Day of As-
cension.'

Drummond of Hawthornden-Divine Poems-
"The Ascension.'

Crashaw Sacred Epigrams-No. 120-The
Ascension.'

The Ascension of our
Lord-continued.

(Acts i. 4.)

Keble-Christian Year '-'Ascension Day.'
Dean Stanley-Poems-Hymn of the Ascension.'
E. B. Browning-Sonnets - The Changeless
Christ.'

Elizabeth Charles-Poems-Last Words.'
S. T. Worsley-Miscellaneous Poems-'Ascen-
sion of Christ.'

J. M. Neale Hymns- Mount of Olives.'
Middlemore Morgan-Poems-The Ascension.'
Theodore Martin-Translation of Goethe's
Faust''Choruses of the Ascension.'

St. Luke, the Beloved
Physician.
(Acts i. 4.)

The Apostles and Pente

cost.

(Acts ii. 1, 47.)

Langland-Vision of Piers Plowman'-P. ix. 1. 153.

Crashaw-Sacred Epigrams-No. 142-Luke,
the Beloved Physician.'

Herbert-Temple'-'The Church Porch.'
Dean Alford-Poems-St. Luke.'

J. B. S. Monsell-Poems-The Good Physician.'
F. R. Havergal-'Under His Shadow''The
Ministry of Intercession.'

Donne Holy Sonnets'-B. i. 1. 5.
George Wither-Election of Matthias.'
Vaughan-Silex Scintillans'-'The Call.'
Herbert-Temple '-' Miserie.'

Keble-Christian Year '—' Pentecost.'
Middlemore Morgan-Poems-"Pentecost.'
Dean Plumptre-Master and Scholar'-'The
Day of Pentecost.'

Cardinal Newman - Poems -The Gift of
Tongues.'

Mrs. Cousin 'Immanuel's Land'-'The Early
Christians.

St. Peter.
(Acts ii., xii.)

Dorcas.
(Acts ix. 36.)

Martyrdom of Stephen. (Acts vii.)

Langland Vision of Piers Plowman'-P. xv.

-1.597.

Parson's Tale

Bishop Ken-Hymns-Peter in Prison.'
Milton-Paradise Lost'-B. iii. 1. 484.

Crashaw-Sacred Epigrams-Pt. i. No. 19.-
'Peter's Shadow heals the Sick.'

Crashaw-Sacred Epigrams-Pt. ii. No. 26.-
'Peter loosed by the Angel.'
Quarles-Divine Fancies'-B. iv. No. 11.
Young-'Night Thoughts'-B. ix. 1. 970.
Keble-Christian Year'- Peter and Cornelius.
Keble-Christian Year '-Peter in Prison.'
J. B. S. Monsell-Poems- Peter in Prison.'
Mrs Browning-Sonnets-The Look' and
'The Meaning of the Look.'

Herbert-Temple'-'Longing' and 'The Bag.'
Crashaw-Sacred Epigrams-Dorcas.'

Giles Fletcher-Miscellaneous Poems-Raising
of Dorcas.'

Richard Baxter-Poetical Fragments-Raising
of Dorcas.'

George Macdonald-The Work of Dorcas.'
T. T. Lynch-Miscellaneous Poems-' Dorcas.'
Chaucer-Romaunt of the Rose.'

Sylvester-Triumph of Faith '-Canto iii. St. 28.
Crashaw-Sacred Epigrams-Pt. i.-'Stephen's
Crown.'

Dean Plumptre-Dante'-' Purgat.'-B. xv.
11. 106-114.

Keble-Christian Year'-'St. Stephen.'

J. Mason Neale-Translation of Adam of St.

Victor'-'Stephen.'