Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent BourneBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... praise Thee 9. The Contrite Heart • • 10. The future Peace and Glory of the Church 11. Jehovah our Righteousness 12. Ephraim repenting 13. The Covenant • • 51 52 53 • 54 55 56 57 • 58 59 60 61 61 62 14. Jehovah - Shammah . 15. Praise ...
... praise Thee 9. The Contrite Heart • • 10. The future Peace and Glory of the Church 11. Jehovah our Righteousness 12. Ephraim repenting 13. The Covenant • • 51 52 53 • 54 55 56 57 • 58 59 60 61 61 62 14. Jehovah - Shammah . 15. Praise ...
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William Cowper. 14. Jehovah - Shammah . 15. Praise for the Fountain opened . 16. The Sower 17. The House of Prayer 18. Lovest thou me ? . 19. Contentment 20. Old Testament Gospel 21. Sardis · · 22. Prayer for a Blessing . • 23. Pleading ...
William Cowper. 14. Jehovah - Shammah . 15. Praise for the Fountain opened . 16. The Sower 17. The House of Prayer 18. Lovest thou me ? . 19. Contentment 20. Old Testament Gospel 21. Sardis · · 22. Prayer for a Blessing . • 23. Pleading ...
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... Praise for Truth • 66. Grace and Providence · 67. I will praise the Lord at all times Fragment of a Hymn Anti - Thelyphthora . A Tale in Verse Table Talk . The Progress of Error • Truth • Expostulation Hope . Charity • Conversation ...
... Praise for Truth • 66. Grace and Providence · 67. I will praise the Lord at all times Fragment of a Hymn Anti - Thelyphthora . A Tale in Verse Table Talk . The Progress of Error • Truth • Expostulation Hope . Charity • Conversation ...
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... praise , dealt thriftily From the nice scale of judgement , honours more Than does the lavish and o'erbearing tide Of profuse courtesy . Not all the gems Of India's richest soil at random spread O'er the gay vesture of some glittering ...
... praise , dealt thriftily From the nice scale of judgement , honours more Than does the lavish and o'erbearing tide Of profuse courtesy . Not all the gems Of India's richest soil at random spread O'er the gay vesture of some glittering ...
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William Cowper. O Solyma ! if e'er thy praise Be silent in my song , Rude and unpleasing be the lays , And artless be my tongue ! Thy name my fancy still employs ; To thee , great fountain of my joys , My sweetest airs belong . Remember ...
William Cowper. O Solyma ! if e'er thy praise Be silent in my song , Rude and unpleasing be the lays , And artless be my tongue ! Thy name my fancy still employs ; To thee , great fountain of my joys , My sweetest airs belong . Remember ...
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beams beneath bids bless'd blessing blest bliss boast bosom breast breath Canusium charms Cowper dear Delia delight despair divine dream earth eternal eyes face fair faith fancy fear feel fire flame fools form'd frown Gittite give glory grace hand happy hast hate hear heart Heaven heavenly hope hour Israel JEHOVAH-JIREH JEHOVAH-SHALOM JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH Jesus land light live Lord lyre mankind mercy mercy seat mind Muse never nymph o'er OLNEY HYMNS once pain Paradise Lost peace pity pleasure praise prayer pride prove rest sacred Saviour scene scorn seem'd shine sigh sight Sinuessa skies smile song sorrow soul sound Stamp'd Strange matters stream sweet sweet oblivion tears thee theme thine thou art thought thousand throne toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas vex'd VINCENT BOURNE virtue Whate'er where'er WILLIAM COWPER wisdom word wretch youth
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Page 313 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 83 - God, in Israel, sows the seeds Of affliction, pain, and toil ; These spring up and choke the weeds Which would else o'erspread the...
Page 341 - Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. Rome shall perish — write that word In the blood that she has spilt; Perish, hopeless and abhorr'd, Deep in ruin as in guilt.
Page 67 - HARK, my soul ! it is the Lord ; "Tis thy Saviour, hear his word ; Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee, " Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me...
Page 51 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? 3...
Page 165 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile, From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star. Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LIVE.
Page 82 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head...
Page 305 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Page 86 - GOD of my life, to Thee I call, Afflicted at thy feet I fall ; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave not my trembling heart to fail ! 2 Friend of the friendless, and the faint ! Where should I lodge my deep complaint ? Where but with Thee, whose open door Invites the helpless and the poor...
Page 301 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace : Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind- quite vacant is a mind distressed.