 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
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...time of rest, the promis'd sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Full-fill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world;...to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The diwt, that waits upon his sultry majch, When sin hath mov'd him, and hi» wrath is hot,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...state of human things Is merely as the working of the sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...The time of rest, the premised sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world;...Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest: For He, whofe car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits npon his sultry march, When sin hath moved... | |
 | Baptists - 1831 - 334 pages
...ssbbath, conies. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfilled I heir tardy and dbastrous coarse 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." Dec. 28. The Burman... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 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...state of human things Is merely as the working of the sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest: For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...time of rest, thepromis'd Sabbath, comes. Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd tiieir tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world ;...tempestuous state of human things, Is merely as the workmg of asea 10 Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest; For lie, whose car the winds are. and the... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 pages
...prominent indications in divine Providence, that, " Six thousand years of sorrow, have well nigh Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...this tempestuous state of human things Is merely as tile working of a sea Before a calm that rocks itself to rest." Who will not rejoice, that wherever... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1834 - 498 pages
...The time of rest, the promised sabbath, comes : Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh Fulfill'd their tardy and disastrous course Over a sinful world...Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in his chariot pav'd with love ; And what his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...The time of rest, the promised 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 moved Him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...The time of rest, the promised 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 moved him, and his wrath is hot, Shall... | |
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