- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1308-1321)
- Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
- The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
- The Saint's Everlasting Rest by Richard Baxter (1650)
- Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts (1707)
- Olney Hymns by John Newton and William Cowper (1779)
Contemporary Christian Poem Books:
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942)
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (1971)
- The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson (1963)
- In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? by Charles Sheldon (1896)
- The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (2002)
- Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (2004)
- He Lives by Max Lucado (2009)
- The Shack by William P. Young (2007)
- The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel (1998)