 Whose fire was kindled at the prophets' lamp, The time of rest, the promised sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world; and what remains Of this tempestuous state of human...  Poems - Page 234by William Cowper - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...to rest : For HE, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot,. Shall... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course 735 Over a sinful world ; and what remains Of this tempestuous...to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds 740 The dust that waits upon his sultry march, , When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot,... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh, Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world,...to rest. . For he, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot. Shall... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...The time of rest, the promised sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds . The dust, that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...The time of rest, the promis'd sahhath, comes. ' Six thousand years of sorrow have weUnigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course ,.., ,.| Over a...and what remains Of this tempestuous state of human thing* .„ (| .^ Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...to rest : For HE, whose car the winds are, and the clouds Th« dust that waits upon the sultry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, conies. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon his sultry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...tardy and disastrons conrse Over a sinfnl world ; and what remaius Of this tempestnons state of hnman things Is merely as the working of a sea Before a...to rest: For He, whose car the winds are, and the clonds The dnst, that waits npon his snltry march, When sin hath mov'd him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...The time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have wellnigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...and what remains Of this tempestuous state of human thing* Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car... | |
 | Joshua Marsden - Bermuda Islands - 1816 - 324 pages
...J»r country. The groans of Nature in this nether world, Which heaven has heard for ages, have an end. For He, whose car the winds are, and the cloud* The dust that waits upon his sultry march, Shall visit Earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious, in his chariot pav'd with love ; And what his... | |
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