 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast.  Poems - Page 61by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Primitive Methodists, Hugh Bourne - 1824 - 394 pages
...soul-refreshing view, Of Jesus and his word ? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd '. How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | John Newton - 1824 - 638 pages
...soul refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word ? .S What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. * Rom. viii.36. t Holi. x'ti. ?£ 4 Return, O holy Dove, return ! Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate... | |
 | 1824 - 448 pages
...soul-refreshing view, Of Jesus and his word? " What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill." And this cessation of a powerful excitement, which usually accompanies the first impressions of truth,... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pages
...soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and His Word ? What peaceful hours I then enjoyed, How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill." I know that, naturally, I am rough and rugged; and I have always thought it unmanly for a man to shed... | |
 | S B Haslam - 1824 - 658 pages
...enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still ! Now, oft I find an aching void, Which God alone can fill. z 4 Return, O holy Dove ! return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate the sin that makes thee mourn, And spurns thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er... | |
 | 1825 - 232 pages
...and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I then enjoy 'd! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But now I find an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return,...the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from mv breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne,... | |
 | William Haslett - 1825 - 224 pages
...thus to have lost an opportunity so precious ? Well may thou adopt the words of the pious Cowper, " Return, O holy dove, return Sweet messenger of rest...that made thee mourn, A.nd drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, WKate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | Robert Taylor Hunt - 1825 - 382 pages
...the soul refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! 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... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...soul-refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word ? What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. Keturn, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 pages
...soul-refreshing view Of Jesus, and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. -I Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made Thee mourn, And... | |
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