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The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Meditations and devotions of 60 classic writers
that offer rare glimpses into their spiritual lives
Alcott • Adams • Austen • Blake • The Brontës • The Brownings • Bryant • Carlyle • Chaucer • Coleridge • Defoe • Dickens • Dickinson • Donne • Dostoyevsky • Dryden • Eliot • Emerson • Erasmus • Goethe • Herbert • Herrick • Holmes • Hopkins • Hugo • Jackson • Johnson • Jonson • Kierkegaard • Kilmer • Kipling • Lewis • Lamb • Melville • Milton • More • Muir • Pascal • Plato • Poe • Pope • The Rossettis • Scott • Shakespeare • Shelley • Sidney • Spenser • Stevenson • Stowe • Tennyson • Thompson • Tolstoy • Voltaire • Whitman • Whittier • Wordsworth
Constance and Daniel Pollock, Editors
Meditations and devotions of 60 classic writers
that offer rare glimpses into their spiritual lives
Alcott • Adams • Austen • Blake • The Brontës • The Brownings • Bryant • Carlyle • Chaucer • Coleridge • Defoe • Dickens • Dickinson • Donne • Dostoyevsky • Dryden • Eliot • Emerson • Erasmus • Goethe • Herbert • Herrick • Holmes • Hopkins • Hugo • Jackson • Johnson • Jonson • Kierkegaard • Kilmer • Kipling • Lewis • Lamb • Melville • Milton • More • Muir • Pascal • Plato • Poe • Pope • The Rossettis • Scott • Shakespeare • Shelley • Sidney • Spenser • Stevenson • Stowe • Tennyson • Thompson • Tolstoy • Voltaire • Whitman • Whittier • Wordsworth
Constance and Daniel Pollock, Editors
Jane Austen:
“Give us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray, as to deserve to be heard,
to address thee with our hearts, as with our lips. Thou art every where
present, from thee no secret can be hid.”
“Give us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray, as to deserve to be heard,
to address thee with our hearts, as with our lips. Thou art every where
present, from thee no secret can be hid.”
Charles Dickens:
“We should remember every day or our lives to love the Lord our God
with all our heart, and with all our mind, and with all our soul,
and with all our strength.”
“We should remember every day or our lives to love the Lord our God
with all our heart, and with all our mind, and with all our soul,
and with all our strength.”
Emily Dickinson:
“I never spoke with God, nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot as if the chart were given.”
“I never spoke with God, nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot as if the chart were given.”
Edgar Allen Poe:
“At morn—at noon—at twilight dim—Maria! Thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and woe—in good and ill—Mother of God, be with me still!”
“At morn—at noon—at twilight dim—Maria! Thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and woe—in good and ill—Mother of God, be with me still!”
Robert Louis Stevenson:
“As the clay to the potter, as the windmill to the wind,
as children of their sire, we beseech of Thee this help and mercy.”
“As the clay to the potter, as the windmill to the wind,
as children of their sire, we beseech of Thee this help and mercy.”
The Book of Uncommon Prayer is wonderful for browsing, a comfortable companion for a quiet moment. Some of the prayers and meditations in this unusual collection are familiar old friends. Others are delightful surprises. Some express ebullient joy and thanksgiving, some give voice to heartbreaking pain and grief, others muse thoughtfully on human frailty and divine faithfulness. But all share an uncommon measure of beauty and spiritual sensitivity.
