“It Is I: Be Not Afraid”
“It Is I: Be Not Afraid” Loud was the wind, and wild the tide;The ship her course delayed: Loud was the wind, and wild the tide;The ship her course delayed:The Lord came to their help, and cried,“Tis I: be not afraid.” Who walks the waves in wondrous guise,By Nature’s laws unstaid?“Tis I,” A well known […]
The World Renounced
The World Renounced Go, worthless world! I’ve tried and foundThy hollowness at last: Go, worthless world! I’ve tried and foundThy hollowness at last:I know thee now an empty sound,And spurn at all thou hast. Thy smiles, thy flatteries, thy deceit,I’ve scanned them o’er and o’er.Go, other hearts to snare and cheat;Thou holdest mine no more. […]
Recollections
Recollections ‘Twas a sweet April morning: I traversed the gladeWhere my light foot in infancy often had played: ‘Twas a sweet April morning: I traversed the gladeWhere my light foot in infancy often had played:Each object recalled to my lingering viewThe hours that there once so delightfully flew. Dear scenes of enchantment, for ever gone […]
New Year’s Morning Hymn
New Year’s Morning Hymn Hail to another year,The year that now begins! Hail to another year,The year that now begins!All hail to Him who led us hereThrough dangers and through sins! Hail to another year!Peace to the year that’s past!May this one at its close appearLess worthless than the last! Hail to another year!Ere round […]
The Pilgrim’s Song
The Pilgrim’s Song My rest is in heaven; my rest is not here;Then why should I murmur when trials are near? My rest is in heaven; my rest is not here;Then why should I murmur when trials are near?Be hushed, my dark spirit! the worst that can comeBut shortens thy journey, and hastens thee home. […]
The Wall-Flower
The Wall-Flower Why loves my flower, so high reclinedUpon these walls of barren gloom, Why loves my flower, so high reclinedUpon these walls of barren gloom,To wast her sweetness on the wind,And far from every eye to bloom?Why joy to twine with golden braidThis ruined rampart’s aged head,Proud to expose her gentle formAnd swing her […]
Spare My Flower
Spare My Flower O spare my flower, my gentle flower,The slender creature of a day! O spare my flower, my gentle flower,The slender creature of a day!Let it bloom out its little hour,And pass away.Too soon its fleeting charms must lieDecayed, unnoticed, overthrown.O hasten not its destiny,Too like thy own. The breeze will roam this […]
Parted Christians
Parted Christians When reft of the converse of those that they love,The godless may fret and repine: When reft of the converse of those that they love,The godless may fret and repine:‘Tis ours to look up to a Father above,And try to His will to resign.The friends in a Saviour need not be deplored,Wherever their […]
Autumnal Hymn
Autumnal Hymn The leaves around me fallingAre preaching of decay; The leaves around me fallingAre preaching of decay;The hollow winds are calling,“Come, pilgrim, come away!”The day, in night declining,Says, I must too decline,The year its life resigningIts lot foreshadows mine. The light my path surrounding,The loves to which I cling,The hopes within me bounding,The joys […]
Evening
Evening Sweet evening hour! sweet evening hour!That calms the air, and shuts the flower; Sweet evening hour! sweet evening hour!That calms the air, and shuts the flower;That brings the wild bird to her nest,The infant to its mother’s brast. Sweet hour! that bids the labourer cease;That gives the weary team release,And leads them home, and […]
Stability
Stability There is a change in all below;Nought sure beneath the sky: There is a change in all below;Nought sure beneath the sky:Suns rise and set, tides ebb and flow,And man but lives to die. Our joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,Still course each other on:A blessing in our path appearsWe grasp, and it is […]
Far From My Heavenly Home
Far From My Heavenly Home Far from my heavenly home,Far from my Father’s breast, Far from my heavenly home,Far from my Father’s breast,Fainting I cry, blest Spirit, comeAnd speed me to my rest. My spirit homeward turnsAnd fain would thither flee;My heart, O Zion, droops and yearns,When I remember thee. To thee, to thee I […]