Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little Flower of Jesus'

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Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux,
known as the 'Little Flower of Jesus'
by
St. Therese of Lisieux
About Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little Flower
of Jesus' by St. Therese of Lisieux
Title: Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little Flower
of Jesus'
URL: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/therese/poems.html
Author(s): Therese, of Lisieux, Saint (1873-1897)
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Date Created: 2000-07-09
CCEL Subjects: All; Classic; Mysticism;
LC Call no: PQ2450.T16
LC Subjects: French literature
Modern literature (Individual authors)
19th century
Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little St. Therese of Lisieux
Flower of Jesus'
Table of Contents
About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii
Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1
Dedication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3
Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 4
Index According to Dates.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 7
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 9
First Part.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13
My Song of To-Day.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13
To Live of Love.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14
Canticle to the Holy Face.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 18
‘Thou Hast Broken My Bonds O Lord.’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 19
Jesus, My Well Beloved, Remember Thou!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 20
To the Sacred Heart.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 28
The Eternal Canticle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 30
I Thirst for Love.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 31
My Heaven on Earth.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33
My Hope.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34
My Wishes Before the Tabernacle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35
Jesus Only.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 37
To Scatter Flowers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 38
A Work of Love.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 39
My Armor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 40
My Peace and My Joy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 42
A Lily Amidst Thorns.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 44
A Withered Rose.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 45
Abandonment.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 46
Second Part.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49
The Dew Divine.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49
To Our Lady of Victories.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 50
The Queen of Heaven to Her Little Mary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52
Why I Love Thee Mary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 54
Third Part.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 62
To My Angel Guardian.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 62
To My Little Brothers in Heaven, the Holy Innocents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 63
The Melody of St. Cecilia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 66
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Canticle of St. Agnes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69
To the Venerable Teophane Venard, Martyred.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Fourth Part.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 73
The Story of a Shepherdess Who Became a Queen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 73
Prayer of a Child of a Saint.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 75
What I Used to Love.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 77
Fifth Part.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 85
Jesus at Bethany.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 85
Bird Cage of the Infant Jesus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 93
The Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 94
The Little Divine Beggar of Christmas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 97
The Angels of the Crib.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 109
Poems in Honor of Jeanne D’Arc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 118
I. The Shepherdess of Domremy Hearkening to Her Voices.. . . . . . . p. 118
II. Hymn of Jeanne D’Arc After Her Victories.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 123
III. Prayer of Jeanne D’Arc in Prison.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 124
IV. The Voices of Jeanne D’Arc During Her Martyrdom.. . . . . . . . . . p. 125
V. The Divine Judgment.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 126
VI. The Canticle of Triumph.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 127
VII. Prayer of France to the Venerable Jeanne D’Arc.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 129
VIII. Canticle to Obtain the Canonization of the Venerable Jeanne
D’Arc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 129
Indexes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 132
Index of Scripture References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 132
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Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little St. Therese of Lisieux
Flower of Jesus'
POEMS
of
SR. TERESA, Carmelite of Lisieux,
known as
The “Little Flower of Jesus,”
“Thou, O Lord, hast been the only object of my
songs in the place of my pilgrimage.”
Ps. CXVIII, 54.
Translated by S.L. EMERY,
Author of the “Inner Life of the Soul.”
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Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little St. Therese of Lisieux
Flower of Jesus'
Boston
ANGEL GUARDIAN   CARMELITE CONVENT
PRESS
RUGGLES STREET   MT. PLEASANT AVENUE
Copyright, 1907
by
CARMELITE CONVENT
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Flower of Jesus'
DEDICATION
TO
THE LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS
BLOOMING IN PARADISE, WHOSE HEAVENLY FRAGRANCE HAS
REFRESHED MY SOUL DURING MANY HOURS OF
EXILE HERE BELOW, THE FOLLOWING
PAGES ARE LOVINGLY DEDICATED
BY
THE TRANSLATOR.
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Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little St. Therese of Lisieux
Flower of Jesus'
CONTENTS
FIRST PART
MY SONG OF TO-DAY
TO LIVE OF LOVE
CANTICLE TO THE HOLY FACE
THOU HAST BROKEN MY BONDS, O LORD
REMEMBER THOU
TO THE SACRED HEART
THE ETERNAL CANTICLE SUNG IN BANISHMENT
“I THIRST FOR LOVE”
MY HEAVEN ON EARTH
MY HOPE
MY WISHES BEFORE THE TABERNACLE.
JESUS ONLY
TO SCATTER FLOWERS
A WORK OF LOVE
MY ARMOR
MY PEACE AND MY JOY
A LILY AMIDST THORNS
A WITHERED ROSE
ABANDONMENT
SECOND PART
THE DEW DIVINE
TO OUR LADY OF VICTORIES
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN TO HER LITTLE MARY
WHY I LOVE THEE, MARY
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Flower of Jesus'
THIRD PART
TO MY ANGEL GUARDIAN
TO MY LITTLE BROTHERS IN HEAVEN, THE HOLY
INNOCENTS
MELODY OF SAINT CECILIA
CANTICLE OF SAINT AGNES
TO THE VENERABLE THEOPHANE VENARD, MARTYRED
FOURTH PART
STORY OF A SHEPHERDESS WHO BECAME A QUEEN
PRAYER OF THE CHILD OF A SAINT
WHAT I USED TO LOVE
FIFTH PART
JESUS AT BETHANY
THE BIRD CAGE OF THE INFANT JESUS
FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
THE LITTLE DIVINE BEGGAR OF CHRISTMAS
ANGELS OF THE CRIB
POEMS IN HONOR OF JEANNE D’ARC
SHEPHERDESS OF DOMREMY HEARKENING TO HER VOICES
HYMN OF JEANNE D’ARC AFTER HER VICTORIES
PRAYER OF JEANNE D’ARC IN PRISON
VOICES OF JEANNE D’ARC DURING HER MARTYRDOM
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Flower of Jesus'
THE DIVINE JUDGMENT
CANTICLE OF TRIUMPH
PRAYER OF FRANCE TO THE VENERABLE JEANNE D’ARC
CANTICLE TO OBTAIN CANONIZATION OF JEANNE D’ARC
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