Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. Poems - Strona 61autor: William Cowper - 1802Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| William Allen - 1835 - Liczba stron: 812
...soul-refreshing view- Of JESOS, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours, I once enjoyed ? How sweet their mem'ry still? But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. AS 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; 1 hntc the sins, that made Thee mourn,... | |
| American Sunday-School Union - 1835 - Liczba stron: 346
...enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still I Rut they have left an aching void The world can never fill. 1 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that mnde thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 6 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 464
...soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! 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 the sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
| Hannah More - 1835 - Liczba stron: 272
...soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word 1 What peaceful ho;irs I once enjoy'd I 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 sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
| John R. Rice - 1980 - Liczba stron: 340
...consciously do so, our sins. If we spend enough time in prayer, we can learn the meaning of the old song, Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the stns mat made Thee mourn, And drove Thee from my breast Fasting will help us to break up the fallow... | |
| Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - Liczba stron: 274
...the Soul:refreshing View/ Of Jesus in his Word? What peacefull Hours I then enjoyd,/ 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 the Sins that made thee mourn/ And drove... | |
| Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson - 1984 - Liczba stron: 408
...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... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - Liczba stron: 314
...wondrous Cross" (Watts);16 "Other Refuge have / none, / Hangs my helpless Soul on Thee" (Wesley); "/ hate the sins that made thee mourn/ And drove thee from my breast" (Cowper); "Rock of Ages, cleft form*" (Toplady). Each hymn (at least each of the best ones, the great... | |
| J. Sidlow Baxter, James Sidlow Baxter - 1986 - Liczba stron: 1848
...to be found on a Christian's lips — ' What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ; how sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void the world can never fill.' If there be any of you whose experience this is, remember that the cure for it is the return to Kadesh.... | |
| Paul S. Fiddes - 1989 - Liczba stron: 256
...laments in one of his frequent bouts of depression, 'Where is the blessedness I knew?' and pleads: Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest!...that made thee mourn And drove thee from my breast. A further reason for the sense of desertion in suffering is no doubt the failure of expectations that... | |
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