Selections from the Christian Poets, Ancient and Modern

Christian poets

Seeleye, 1851 - Christian poetry, English - 431 pages

Contents

• Latin: 3
• Grrman: 17
• TIS NOT TOO HARD TOO HIGH AN: 29
• O LORD TURN NOT THY FACE AWAY: 35
• MY STOCK LIES DEAD AND NO INCREASE: 41
• 6: 47
• 6: 54
• AS WITHERETH THE PRIMROSE BY THE RIVER: 60
• 6: 70
• Dryden: 75
• THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT ON HIGH: 81
• THE LORD ABOUNDS WITH TENDER LOVE: 87
• 6: 100
• FATHER WHATEER OF EARTHLY BLISS: 107
• THERE IS A LAND OF PURE DELIGHT: 113
• JESUS WHILE HE DWELT BELOW: 119
• COME HOLY SPIRIT COME: 125
• 6: 147
• WOULD NOT ALWAYS LIVE: 153
• FEEL A CARNAL MIND: 161
• 6: 172
• O THAT MY HEART WAS RIGHT WITH THEE: 175
• Grigg: 183
• Weslen: 191
• THE FRENCHMAN FIRST IN LITERARY FAME: 217
• Cowper: 229
• 6: 235
• 6: 241
• Jemtou: 253
• OFT AS THE BELL WITH SOLEMN TOLL: 261
• 6: 267
• O THOU BY LONG EXPERIENCE TRIED: 277
• Madan: 283
• GRACE DOES NOT STEEL THE FAITHFUL HEART: 327
• 6: 333
• Montgomery: 341
• 6: 349
• O GOD UNSEEN BUT NOT UNKNOWN: 357
• FOR THOU DIDST DIE FOR ME O SON OF: 375
• THE WIND BLOWS CHILL ACROSS THOSE GLOOMY WAVES: 380
• I WILL TAKE REFUGE IN MY: 387
• 6: 399
• 6: 405
• JERUSALEM MY HAPPY HOME: 411
• THERE WAS A LITTLE LOWLY UPPER ROOM: 417
• THE PASCHAL BEAST: 424
• KNELL OF DEPARTED YEARS: 430

Popular passages

Page 339 - Friend after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end.

Page 52 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Page 261 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end: They who once His kindness prove, Find it everlasting love.

Page 223 - FOR a closer walk with God ! A calm and heavenly frame ! A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...

Page 349 - GO to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the tempter's power, Your Redeemer's conflict see, Watch with him one bitter hour ; Turn not from his griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

Page 318 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Page 351 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.

Page 232 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming Love has been my theme, And shall be till I die. 5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save, When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave.

Page 288 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign ! 727 Psalm 60.

Page 66 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?

Bibliographic information

• Title: Selections from the Christian Poets, Ancient and Modern
• Author: Christian poets
• Publisher: Seeleye, 1851
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Jul 19, 2006
• Length: 431 pages