THE GOD OF LOVE
The God of love my Shepherd is, And He that doth me feed; While He is mine, and I am His, What can I want or need? He leads me to the tender grass, Where I both feed and rest;…
JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM, thou City blest! Dear vision of celestial rest, Which far above the starry sky, Piled up with living stones on high, Art, as a Bride, encircled bright With million angel forms of light: Oh, wedded in a prosperous hour,…
GOD OF GOD, LIGHT OF LIGHT, VERY GOD OF VERY GOD
ζοφεράς τριχυμίας. Fierce was the wild billow; Dark was the night; Oars labored heavily; Foam glimmered white; Trembled the mariners; Peril was high: Then said the God of God, —“Peace! It is I!” Ridge of the mountain-wave, Lower thy crest!…
HAVE MERCY!
LORD, many times I am aweary quite Of mine own self, my sin, my vanity; Yet be not Thou — or I am lost outright — Weary of me. And hate against myself I often bear, And enter with myself…
RESIGNATION
THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe’er defended, But has one vacant chair! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The…