 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.  Works: Life and Letters - Page 142by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1890 - 396 pages
...; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shatle, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet...peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her GOD ! There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts... | |
 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - Hymns, English - 1890 - 540 pages
...O Lord, I flee, From strife and tu - mult far, From scenes where Sa - tan wa - ges still His ^^T 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. 3 There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh with what peace, and joy, and love,... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...easilv forgiven; We find ourselves in hell instead of heaven." 106 1OC RETIREMENT. WILLIAM COWPER. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God. CHARON AND HIS PASSENGERS. LUCiAN... | |
 | Church of England - Hymns, English - 1891 - 442 pages
...Lord, I flee ; From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where evil wages still Its most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There, like the nightingale, she... | |
 | Montague John Guest - 1891 - 616 pages
...wages still His too successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise aj>ree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee/' In none of these things should we wish to condemn unreservedly ; for even when we ditt'er we can sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...to retire into the country, and which contains the following well-known and beautiful lines : — " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...peace, and joy, and love She communes with her God ! " Cowper now greatly regretted the loss of his books at the Temple, some of which had been his father's,... | |
 | John Morgan - Clergy - 1892 - 224 pages
...aspirations not to feel the beauty and the bliss of the religious life, as delineated in his verse : ' The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who worship Thee. There if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson, Edward Judson - Baptists - 1892 - 548 pages
...I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree; And seem by thy great bounty made For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Olney - 1893 - 294 pages
...world, O Lord, I flee," of which the latter contains the following wellknown and beautiful lines :— " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God." At Huntingdon he formed an intimacy, and took up his abode with the Unwins, the amiable family with... | |
 | General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America - Hymns, English - 1893 - 770 pages
...I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. 3 There, if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and love,... | |
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