Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse - Page 551edited by - 1926 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herbert Mends - 1801 - 432 pages
...with GOD, A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! II. Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is th.e soul-refreshing view Of JESUS, and his word ? in. What peaceful hours I then enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! But now I find an aching... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...enjoy'd ! How sweet jheir mem'ry still ! But they Have left an aching void The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest...that made thee mourn* And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known,. Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
| Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 pages
...'d! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4. Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to- tear it from thy throne,, And... | |
| George Richards - 1806 - 394 pages
...God, ^•^ A calm and hcav'nly 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...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their mem'ry still! But they have left an aching void,... | |
| Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! Where is the blessedness I knew, . When first I saw...view Of Jesus and his word ? What peaceful hours I then enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still! But now I find an aching void The world can never fill.... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...with God, A calm and heav'nly 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...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word ? » Rom. viii. 36. b Heb. xii. 24. 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy 'd ! How sweet their mem'ry... | |
| John Dobell - 1810 - 538 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame A light to shine upon the road, That leads me to the Lamb. H Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...the soul-refreshing view, Of Jesus, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I then enjoyM I How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void,... | |
| John Dobell - 1810 - 540 pages
...with God, ' A calm and heav'nly frame ; A 1'ght to shine upon the road, That leads me to the Lamb. 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...the soul-refreshing view, Of Jesus, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I then enjoy'd I How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 pages
...'d L How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest;...made thee mourn,' ( And drove thee from my breast : 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it froni thy throne, And... | |
| Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pages
...enjoy'd I How sweet their memory still I But now I find an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from the throne, And worship... | |
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