Hours of Sorrow

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Authors: Charlotte Elliott In Year : 1836

Book Language: English

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To the Reader
Sonnet to the Harp
Invocation to the Holy Spirit
The Minstrel
Address to Sorrow
The Wanderer
The Contrite Heart
The Æolian Harp
St. Matthew, v. 4
Retrospection
The Valley of Tears
The Skylark
The Moon over the Sea
On Sacred Music
On the same Subject
Stanzas for a Friend in Sorrow
The Requiem
On Noah's Dove: a Similitude
The Vestal
On a Spring Morning
On an Early Violet
The "Still Small Voice"
To the Nightingale
A Search after Happiness
The Hour of Prayer
A Prayer at Midnight
"The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter"
Rest for the Weary
To one suffering from Deafness
On a Frosty Evening
On the Forget-me-not
To a Aged Christian on his Birth-day
On the Anniversary of a Child's Death
To a Widowed Friend
"She goeth unto the grave to weep there"
From a Dying Child
To the Evening-Star
The Christian near his Home
To one restless and unhappy
"My Son, give me thy Heart"
To a Friend setting out on a Journey
To one bereaved of many Relatives
The Death-bed of a Christian
A Dream
A Vision, composed during a Thunderstorm in the Night
On the Death of Two Infants
Anticipations
On the Words uttered by a Dying Child, speaking of Jesus
On a Young Friend's Illness
On a restless Night, in Illness
On hearing a Canary-Bird sing in London
On an Infant who lived only a few Months
From a Mother to her departed Babe
Epitaph
To a bereaved Christian Friend
To "the Infant Lyra"
Prayer for the Consecration of Talent
The Pilgrim
To a Mother, on the Death of a Child of great promise
To a Mother bereaved of her only Daughter
To Faith. Written in Illness
"Have I not remembered Thee on my Bed?"
To one whose Mind was disordered by Grief
The Widowed Heart
"Thy will be done"
Prayer to the Saviour
On the Midnight preceding Good Friday
The Ark
"Be not faithless, but believing"
Written for one not likely to recover
To one deprived of Hearing at Church by Deafness
"Return unto thy Rest, O my Soul!"
On the Anniversary of a Friend's Death
"All things are become new"
To one who had lost an only Sister
Hymn for a Dying Bed
Prayer for a departing Spirit
Hymn of the emancipated Soul
Closing Sonnet

Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Elliott revised this collection of poems several times during her lifetime. This reading is from the 1836 edition. (Summary by MaryAnn)