 PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.  The Sunday at Home - Page 3931896Full view - About this book
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, Utter'd or unexprest ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear : The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.... | |
 | Richard Rotton - 1825 - 228 pages
...may not be true. Happy they, I ween, if it be. 4. Guides their heart-sigh. Stanza xlvii. line 5. " Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear." Mtntgomery. 7. Tluu tisp'd the child " Amen." Stanza xlviii. line 9. The derivation of the word "Amen"... | |
 | Walter Burgh - 1826 - 382 pages
...Montgomery. (Music, as 3!Hh Psalm. MS) 1. PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, Unutter'd or e'xprest ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast....burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear : T"he upward looking of the eye, When none but God is near. Prayer 2. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1826 - 464 pages
...sincere desire, Utter'd or unexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear...upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant-lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder, Isaac Watts - 1826 - 476 pages
...Utter'd or unexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, '• * When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech, .- i That infant lips can try ; -: • |, ' - , _ . j_q Prayer... | |
 | 1826 - 474 pages
...or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. 3. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try : Prayer, the sublimest strains that... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...Prayer, in the delightful language of the immortal Montgomery : — " Praise is the burden of a tigk, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but GOD is near." Praiso in a sigh ? Yes, praise — much praise — even in a sigh ! Listen! " But my heart fails —... | |
 | Asahel Nettleton - 1826 - 522 pages
...desire, f Unutter'd or express'd, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Pray'r is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye, Whet: none but God is near. 3 Pray'r is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...will tell me, How shall I pray ? is the very subject of my second question. Let Montgomery reply, — Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear,...upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. When engaged on the solemn subjects I have just referred to, I am convinced that a mind, so well prepared... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1827 - 140 pages
...sincere desire, Utter'd or unexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear;...upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try? Prayer the sublimest strains that... | |
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