Your cart is empty now.
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 40mins)
Featuring poems by Herman Melville, William Shakespeare, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Hafiz & others.
Angels are undeniably associated with religion and more usually Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Often they are seen as supernatural beings, benevolent celestial intermediaries interposed between God, Heaven and humanity.
They are protectors, our heavenly guides, and the servants of God. They are also His Messengers. The faithful seek their blessing, their help. A visitation is a miraculous event, filled with reverence, awe and shared with the wider community as a sign that faith has reward.
Other religions also make note of angelic contributions including Sikhism and Zoroastrianism. There is also the unnerving distinction that there are ‘fallen Angels’ that seep dark, malevolent forces into the world. They tempt, they betray, they lead us where it is not safe to go.
But faith once more resolves the dilemma; good will overcome evil. And whether a believer or not, there is a comfort that the angels of our hearts are the ones of love, of care and compassion.
Obviously there are complications, a fact that our classic poets through the centuries, including Alexander Pope, Edmund Spenser, Radclyffe Hall and Hafiz, use as they write verse to explain, to reveal and to help us understand exactly why Angels are so prevalent amongst our thoughts.
In this compilation -
1 - The Poetry of Angels - An Introduction |
2 - I Felt an Angel by Anonymous |
3 - The Angel by William Blake |
4 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke |
5 - The Angels by Rainer Maria Rilke |
6 - The Woman and the Angel by Robert William Service |
7 - The Man to the Angel by George William Russell |
8 - Ex Ore Infantium by Francis Thompson |
9 - The Child Angel by Rabindranath Tagore |
10 - A Poem for Children with Thoughts On Death by Jupiter Hammon |
11 - The Guardian Angel by Robert Browning |
12 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson |
13 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery |
14 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths |
15 - The Ministry of Angels by Edmund Spenser |
16 - The Angels of Man by Bliss Carman |
17 - The Two Angels by Radclyffe Hall |
18 - My Sweet Crushed Angel by Hafiz |
19 - Two or Three Angels by Stephen Crane |
20 - The Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Proctor |
21 - Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe |
22 - The Song of the Seven Archangels by Ernest Rhys |
23 - The Angel by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov |
24 - To.... by James Monroe Whitfield |
25 - Angels Everywhere by Rosa Mulholland |
26 - An Angel in the House by James Henry Leigh Hunt |
27 - The Angel That Presided by William Blake |
28 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats |
29 - Playmates by Emily Dickinson |
30 - Once in a Saintly Passion by James Thomson |
31 - To Rosemary, on the Methods by Which She Might Become an Angel by Stephen Vincent Benet |
32 - It Was Wrong To Do This, Said the Angel by Stephen Crane |
33 - Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson |
34 - The Angel and the Clown by Vachel Lindsay |
35 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons |
36 - To Be An Angel by Francois Couperin |
37 - The Stillness Of Angels by Daniel Sheehan |
38 - One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire |
39 - A Poor Torn Heart, A Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson |
40 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken |
41 - Sonnet CLIV – The Little Love-God by William Shakespeare |
42 - By the Sides of Angels by Daniel Sheehan |
43 - Rosa Mundi by Arthur Symons |
44 - The Willowwood Sonnets. Sonnet I by Dante Gabriel Rosetti |
45 - A Lost Angel by Ellis Parker Butler |
46 - Sonnet CXLIV – Two Loves I Have by William Shakespeare |
47 - Angel or Demon by Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
48 - Paradise Lost (Extract) by John Milton |
49 - The Swamp Angel by Herman Melville |
50 - Verse XX - An Extract from The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson BV |
51 - The Avenging Angel by William Winifred Campbell |
52 - Celia, Sleeping or Singing by Thomas Stanley |
53 - Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges |
54 - The Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson |
55 - Why Has An Angel Died by Daniel Sheehan |
56 - Angels Of Sunderland, In Memoriaum, June 16th 1893 by John Hartley |
57 - The Dying Christian To His Soul by Alexander Pope |