 | Richard Marks - 1843 - 524 Seiten
...griefs, O Lord ! Thy mercy set me free ; While in the confidence of prayer, My soul took hold of thee. " For though in dreadful whirls we hung, High on the broken wave, I knew them wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. " The storm was laid, the winds retir'd, Obedient... | |
 | 1869 - 862 Seiten
...griefs, 0 Lord, , Thy mercy set me free; Whilst, in the confidence of prayer, My soul took hold on Thee. For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. The storm was laid, the winds retired, Obedient to Thy will; The... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...servants blest, O Lord ! " I particularly remember one half-stanza, which was music to my ear — " For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave." 8 Tyrrhene Sea — this sea, called also the Tuscan Sea, was accounted very dangerous by the Romans,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 Seiten
...oh Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of prayer, • My faith took hold on thee. For, though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. The storm was laid, the winds retired Obedient to thy will ; The... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1850 - 158 Seiten
...griefs, 0 Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst, in the confidence of pray'r, My soul took hold on thee. For though in dreadful whirls we hung, High on the broken wave, I knew Thou wast not slow to hear, The storm was laid, the winds retir'd, Obedient to thy will ; The sea, that... | |
 | William Beattie - 1850 - 534 Seiten
...circle, he remarked—" How beautiful fire these linos of AdUison !"—repeating them : ". . . . For tho' in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew Thou wort not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save! . . . * " The Btorm was laid, the winds retired Obedient... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 Seiten
...have had this passage in his eye, when he wrote his Hymn, which is inserted in the Spectator : " — For though in dreadful whirls we hung, High on the broken wave." And in another piece of a like nature, in the same collection : When in the silent womb I lay, And... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 Seiten
...griefs, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free ; While, in the confidence of prayer, My soul took hold on Thee. For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew Thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. The storm was laid, the winds retired, Obedient to Thy will ; The... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 Seiten
...griefs, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of prayer, My faith took hold on thee. For, though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. The storm was laid, the winds retired, Obedient to thy will ; The... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 Seiten
...allusion in these lines is to a violent gale he encountered in his Italian tour.— Vide Life.— G. vn. For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. VIIL The storm was laid, the winds retir'd, Obedient to thy will... | |
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For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. 
