 Press not thy purpose on thy God, • Urge not thine erring will, Nor dictate to the Eternal mind, Nor doubt thy Maker's skill. True prayer is not the noisy sound That clamorous lips repeat, But the deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet.  Zinzendorff and Other Poems - Page 39by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1835 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Johnson Fox - Anthems - 1841 - 132 pages
...state ; Let those who for his favour seek, In humble silence wait. True prayer is not the imposing sound That clamorous lips repeat ; But the deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. B CREATOR-SPIRIT, by whose light The sleeping worlds were called from night Come, visit every pious... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - 356 pages
...clear, It needeth not the pomp of words, To pour them on his ear. Doth Death thy bosom's cell invade ? Yield up thy flower of grass : Swells the world's wrathful billow high ? Bow down, and let it pass. SILENT DEVOTION. 289 Press not thy purpose on thy God, Urge not thine erring will, Nor dictate to the... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American poetry - 1845 - 376 pages
...clear, It needeth not the pomp of words, To pour them on his ear. Doth Death thy bosom's cell invade ? Yield up thy flower of grass : Swells the world's...silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. On the laying of the Corner-stone of her Monument at Fredericksburg, Virginia.... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Hymns, English - 1845 - 124 pages
...state ; Let those who for his favour seek, In humble silence wait. True prayer is not the imposing sound That clamorous lips repeat ; But the deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. CREATOR-SPIRIT, by whose light The sleeping worlds were called from night ! Come, visit every pious... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1849 - 676 pages
...state ; Let those who for his favors seek, In humble silence wait. 2 True prayer is not th' imposing sound That clamorous lips repeat; But the deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. 10OG. HM Doxology. GLORY to God on high ! Forever bless his name ; Let earth, and seas, and sky His... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1847 - 638 pages
...state ; Let those who for his favors seek, In humble silence wait. 2 True prayer is not th' imposing sound That clamorous lips repeat ; But the deep silence of a soul That clasps'Jehovah's feet. 1006. HM Doxology. GLORY to God on high ! Forever bless his name; Let earth,... | |
 | Caroline May - American poetry - 1848 - 624 pages
...known, Your secret motives clear, It needeth not the pomp of words Doth Death thy bosom's cell invade ? Yield up thy flower of grass: Swells the world's wrathful...deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. TO A DYING INFANT. Go to thy rest, my child! Go to thy dreamless bed, Gentle and undefiled, With blessings... | |
 | Samuel Green - 1850 - 392 pages
...Does death thy bosom's cell invade ? Yield up thy flower of grass; Swells the world's wrathful billows high ? Bow down, and let it pass. Press not thy purpose...deep silence of a soul, That clasps Jehovah's feet. 326 ACTS XXVI. EVENING HYMN. ' Commit thy way unto the Lord, and he shall bring it to pass." GIVE to... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1850 - 374 pages
...of grass: Swells the world's wrathful billow high? Bow down, and let it pass. SILENT DEVOTION. 289 Press not thy purpose on thy God, Urge not thine erring...silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. On the laying of the Corner-stone of her Monument at Fredericksburg, Virginia.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1851 - 638 pages
...state ; Let those who for his favors seek, In humble silence wait. 2 True prayer is not th' imposing sound That clamorous lips repeat ; But the deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet. 1006. HM Doxology. GLORY to God on high ! Forever bless his name; Let earth, and seas, and sky His... | |
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