The Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true,To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true,To thee of all kings only due)Oh King of wounds! how shall I grieve for thee,Who in all grief preventest me? Shall I weep blood? why thou has wept such […]
The Holdfast
The Holdfast I threatened to observe the strict decreeOf my deare God with all my power and might: I threatened to observe the strict decreeOf my dear God with all my power and might:But I was told by one, `It could not be;Yet I might trust in God to be my light.’ `Then will I […]
Clasping of Hands
Clasping of Hands Lord, Thou art mine, and I am Thine,If mine I am; and Thine much more Lord, Thou art mine, and I am Thine,If mine I am; and Thine much moreThen I or ought or can be mine.Yet to be Thine doth me restore,So that again I now am mine,And with advantage mine […]
Artillery
Artillery As I one ev’ning sat before my cell,Me thoughts a star did shoot into my lap. As I one ev’ning sat before my cell,Me thoughts a star did shoot into my lap.I rose, and shook my clothes, as knowing well,That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.When suddenly I heard one say,Do as […]
Affliction IV
Affliction IV Broken in pieces all asunder,Lord, hunt me not, Broken in pieces all asunder,Lord, hunt me not,A thing forgot,Once a poor creature, now a wonder,A wonder tortur’d in the spaceBetwixt this world and that of grace. My thoughts are all a case of knives,Wounding my heartWith scatter’d smart,As wat’ring pots give flowers their lives.Nothing […]
Affliction III
Affliction III My heart did heave, and there came forth, ‘O God’!By that I knew that thou wast in the grief, My heart did heave, and there came forth, ‘O God’!By that I knew that thou wast in the grief,To guide and govern it to my relief,Making a sceptre of the rod:Hadst thou not had […]
Affliction II
Affliction II Kill me not ev’ry day,Thou Lord of life, since thy one death for me Kill me not ev’ry day,Thou Lord of life, since thy one death for meIs more than all my deaths can be,Though I in broken payDie over each hour of Methusalem’s stay. If all men’s tears were letInto one common […]
Affliction
Affliction When thou didst entice to thee my heart,I thought the service brave: When thou didst entice to thee my heart,I thought the service brave:So many joys I writ down for my part,Besides what I might haveOut of my stock of natural delights,Augmented with thy gracious benefits. I looked on thy furniture so fine,And made […]