Religious Poems

Elizabeth Prentiss wrote 122 poems that depict some of the deepest experiences of her Christian life . . . they are her tears of joy or of sorrow her cries of anguish and her songs of love and triumph. The epigraph states: The testimony of one soul is the experience of thousands. As Harper's Magazine (1874) wrote: These poems . . . will give strength to many that feel the weariness and faint under it and that need just this cry of a labored trust as a means of conduct to the higher experience of joyous trust.