The poetic corpus (chiefly PG 37-38) is large — the Carmina are conventionally divided into dogmatic and moral books (I.1, I.2) and books of autobiographical/historical poems and poems addressed to others (II.1, II.2) — and no complete English translation exists; every English volume is explicitly a selection. Popular Patristics 21, On God and Man (trans. Peter Gilbert, 2001), has a table of contents of some thirty poems only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,On%20God%20and%20man%20theological%20poetry%20Gregory&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Popular Patristics 46, Poems on Scripture (trans. Brian Dunkle, 2012), is catalogued with the subject 'Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint -- Poems. Selections' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,poems%20on%20scripture%20Gregory%20Nazianzen&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Caroline White, Gregory of Nazianzus: Autobiographical Poems (1996), covers the autobiographical group (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,autobiographical%20poems%20Gregory%20of%20Nazianzus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Poemata arcana (1997) covers the eight 'arcana' only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Poemata%20arcana%20Gregory&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A HOLLIS search 'Gregory of Nazianzus poems English translation' (10 records) shows no complete corpus translation, and the most recent item is a 2025 dissertation on the poems on bishops only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregory%20of%20Nazianzus%20poems%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
The First1KGreek item is a single poem (Sententiae = Carmen morale XXX, 144 words), cited only as a sample of the digital coverage, not as the corpus; the bulk of the Greek is in PG 37-38. The archive.org item is cited at volume level: it is the Migne volume for this author (PG volume-to-author mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca), but the work's exact place in the volume was not verified page by page. Any claim of a 'complete' English Carmina should be rejected: the English volumes are selections by their own tables of contents.
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| First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA (First1KGreek) |
| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857) |
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| Gregory of Nazianzus, autobiographical poems | Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. "Gregory of Nazianzus, autobiographical poems." Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990073037300203941 |
| Poems on bishops by Gregory of Nazianzus and Ephrem the Syrian : literary comparison and translation | Colpani, Giovanni. "Poems on bishops by Gregory of Nazianzus and Ephrem the Syrian : literary comparison and translation." Berlin : De Gruyter, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158744381103941 |
| Person and nature in the theological poems of St. Gregory of Nazianzus | Gilbert, Peter (Peter L.). "Person and nature in the theological poems of St. Gregory of Nazianzus." 1994. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990074129240203941 |
| Selected poems of Gregory of Nazianzus : 1.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32 : a critical edition with introduction and commentary | Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. "Selected poems of Gregory of Nazianzus : 1.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32 : a critical edition with introduction and commentary." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990118873490203941 |
| Toward the glittering heaven : poetry and asceticism in Gregory of Nazianzus' arcane poems | Hampson, Christopher David. "Toward the glittering heaven : poetry and asceticism in Gregory of Nazianzus' arcane poems." 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990125126010203941 |