| William Cowper - 1835 - 460 pages
...How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. Return, O holy Dove, return ! Sweet messenger of rest: I hate...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. VOL. VIII. H So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame: So purer light shall mark... | |
| Hannah More - 1835 - 272 pages
...How sweet thfir incnriy still! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate...The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol he ; Help me to tear it from thy throne; And worship only thee. So shall my walk b« close with God,... | |
| Gregory Townsend Bedell, Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1835 - 522 pages
...flame, A light to shine upon the road Thut leads me to the Lamb. The dearest idol I have known, Whatc'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne,...walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame, 80 purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb. Oh, be guarded, be watchful, brethren,... | |
| William Bourn Oliver Peabody - 1835 - 390 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. Cowper. 243. c. M. Walking with God. 1 THRICE happy souls, who, born from heaven, While yet they sojourn... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1835 - 110 pages
...still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. 4. Return, O holy Dove ! return, 5. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only Thee. 6. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
| Sohrab A. Calianiwala - 1926 - 300 pages
...longer fears the onslaughts of gopis. The sight of Radha efficiently cures Krishna's restlessness : "Return, Sweet messenger of rest, I hate the sins...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast." "When I first read the songs of Jayadeva, who has prefixed to each of them the name of the mode, in... | |
| George Wallace Phillips - 1928 - 254 pages
...enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus... | |
| William Barclay - 1976 - 224 pages
...down his house upon the head of his wife and children; yet, thought I, I must do it, I must do it." "The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee." Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. Time and again in the... | |
| Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 pages
...How sweet their Mem'ry still!/ But they have left an Aching Void/ The World can never fill. Return, O Holy Dove, Return,/ Sweet Messenger of Rest,/ I hate...that made thee mourn/ And drove thee from my Breast. ... ^ I y* * »y # ""* ""^ V '.t/ ^ / ^ ' *' y %U i ^ *, N Ni V? J ^ o; V V ^x^ s .rt ^ 4^ N > , 3... | |
| Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - 1984 - 408 pages
...the "peacefull Hours" have actively and deliberately left misery for him. He continues: Return, oh Holy Dove, Return, Sweet Messenger of Rest, I hate...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my Breast. He is suggesting here that God is no longer with him and he desires His return. Instead of seeing God... | |
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