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• “When gathering clouds around I view”

  When gathering clouds around I view,
  And days are dark, and friends are few,
  On Him I lean, who, not in vain, …

  Sir Robert Grant

• The Star of Bethlehem

  When, marshalled on the nightly plain,
  The glittering host bestud the sky,
  One star alone, of all the train, …

  Henry Kirke White

• Love to Christ

  From “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”
  WITH all thy hart, with all thy soule and mind,
  Thou must him love, and his beheasts embrace; …

  Edmund Spenser

• The Way, the Truth, and the Life

  O Thou great Friend to all the sons of men,
  Who once appeared in humblest guise below,
  Sin to rebuke, to break the captive’s chain, …

  Theodore Parker

• “Knocking, ever knocking”

  “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.”
  —REVELATIONS iii. 20.
  KNOCKING, knocking, ever knocking? …

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

• To-morrow

  From the Spanish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  LORD, what am I, that, with unceasing care,
  Thou didst seek after me,—that Thou didst wait, …

  Lope de Vega

• “I gave my life for thee”

  I Gave my life for thee,
  My precious blood I shed
  That thou might’st ransomed be, …

  Frances Ridley Havergal

• “Jesus shall reign”

  Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
  Does his successive journeys run,—
  His kingdom spread from shore to shore, …

  Isaac Watts

• Messiah

  A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio
  YE nymphs of Solyma! begin the song:
  To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. …

  Alexander Pope

• “My God, I love Thee”

  From the Latin by Edward Caswall
  MY God, I love thee! not because
  I hope for heaven thereby; …

  Saint Francis Xavier

• Veni Creator Spiritus

  From the Latin by John Dryden
  [Sometimes attributed to the Emperor Charlemagne. The better opinion, however, inclines to Pope Gregory I., called the Great, as the author, and fixes its origin somewhere in the sixth century.]
  CREATOR Spirit, by whose aid …

  Saint Gregory

• Veni Sancte Spiritus

  From the Latin by Catharine Winkworth
  [Written in the tenth century by Robert II., the gentle son of Hugh Capet. It is often mentioned as second in rank to the Dies Iræ.]
  COME, Holy Ghost! thou fire divine! …

  King Robert II. of France

• “O Fire of God, the Comforter”

  From the Latin by Richard Frederick Littledale
  “O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti”
  O FIRE of God, the Comforter, O life of all that live, …

  Hildegard of Bingen

• The Holy Spirit

  In the hour of my distress,
  When temptations me oppress,
  And when I my sins confess, …

  Robert Herrick

• Hope of the Human Heart

  From “Anima Mundi”
  GOD is good,
  And flight is destined for the callow wing, …

  Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

• What is Prayer?

  Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire,
  Uttered or unexpressed—
  The motion of a hidden fire …

  James Montgomery

• The Time for Prayer

  WHEN is the time for prayer?
  With the first beams that light the morning’s sky,
  Ere for the toils of day thou dost prepare, …

  Georgiana Bennett

• Seasons of Prayer

  To prayer, to prayer;—for the morning breaks,
  And earth in her Maker’s smile awakes.
  His light is on all below and above,— …

  Henry Ware, Jr.

• Prayer and Repentance

  From “Hamlet,” Act III. Sc. 3.
  The King. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
  It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t, …

  William Shakespeare

• The Caliph and Satan

  Versified from Tholuck’s Translation out of the Persian
  IN heavy sleep the Caliph lay,
  When some one called, “Arise, and pray!” …

  James Freeman Clarke

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