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
| 1873 - 350 pages
...sometimes ; and it came into my mind now in a way I had never till now felt, especially these verses : " Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...view Of Jesus and His Word ? What peaceful hours I then enjoyed, How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never... | |
| John Newton - 1824 - 638 pages
...blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word ? .S What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their...have left an aching void The world can never fill. * Rom. viii.36. t Holi. x'ti. ?£ 4 Return, O holy Dove, return ! Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate... | |
| Asahel Nettleton - 1824 - 498 pages
...blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul. refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word ? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their...have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made thte mourn, And drove... | |
| John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 748 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. t Heb. xii. 24. 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still... | |
| 1862 - 346 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...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word f " What peaceful hours I once enjoyed " Poor Eli could not get any further. His voice trembled so,... | |
| 1824 - 636 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...is the soul-refreshing view Of JESUS, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I then enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching... | |
| Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame ; A light, to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...have left an aching void The world can never fill. Keturn, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1825 - 302 pages
...length she was ready, when alone, more than once to break out in the beautiful words of the hymn — " Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? " How bless'd the hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! — • But they have left... | |
| James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 pages
...with God, A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads rue to the Lamb ! 2 Where is the blessedness I knew. When first I saw...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching... | |
| 1825 - 232 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...is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I then enjoy 'd! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But now I find an aching void,... | |
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