Lyra mystica; hymns and verses on sacred subjects, ancient and modern

Lyra mystica; hymns and verses on sacred subjects, ancient and modern

Author: Shipley, Orby, 1832-1916 comp

Year: 1869

Preface. THE Lyra Mystica owes its origin more to accident than to design ; and a few words will suffice to explain the reason of its publication. Whilst arranging the Collections of Sacred Poetry which have been published under the titles of Lyra Eucharistica and Lyra Messianica , by the kindness of Friends I was placed in possession of many Poems of considerable merit which,from the conditions imposed by allotted space and selected subsects, I was obliged to deny myself the gratification of publishing in those Books. The result, however, which attended the issue of the earlier Works led me to think that a Miscellaneous Collection of Religious Poetry, which should be written by the Contributors who secured the popularity of the former Lyrae, and which should form at once a companion and a contrasting Volume to the Collections already published, would not be unacceptable to their Readers. With the obliging permission of the Authors of the several Poems, this plan has been carried into effect; and the Poems to which I allude form the nucleus of the Lyra Mystica. This nucleus of Sacred Poetry, however, has been much enlarged from the original selection. Many translations have been ma