- The Celestial Country by John Mason Neale (1858).
- "Jerusalem the Golden", excerpted from this translation.
- The Heavenly Land by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1867). (start transcription)
- Laus Patriae Celestis by Oliver Andrew Morse (1867).
De contemptu mundi (On Contempt for the World) is a 3,000 verse poem of stinging satire directed against the secular and religious failings Bernard observed in the world around him. A number of well-known modern hymns, including "Jerusalem the Golden"; "Brief Life is Here Our Portion"; "The World Is Very Evil"; and "For Thee, O Dear, Dear Country", are translations of parts of this famous poem.