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I love to steal awhile away

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 634 hymnals Topics: Blessedness of piety Lyrics: 1 I love to steal awhile away From ev'ry cumb'ring care, And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. 2 I love in solitude to shed The penitential tear, And all His promises to plead, Where none but God can hear. 3 I love to think on mercies past, And future good implore, And all my cares and sorrows cast On Him whom I adore. 4 I love by faith to take a view Of brighter scenes in heaven; The prospect doth my strength renew, While here by tempests driven. 5 Thus, when life's toilsome day is o'er, May its departing ray Be calm as this impressive hour, And lead to endless day.

How tedious and tasteless the hours

Appears in 649 hymnals Topics: Blessedness of piety Lyrics: 1 How tedious and tasteless the hours, When Jesus no longer I see; Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers Have all lost their sweetness with me; The midsummer's sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him, December's as pleasant as May. 2 His name yields the richest perfume, And sweeter than music His voice; His presence disperses my gloom, And makes all within me rejoice; I should, were He always thus nigh, Have nothing to wish or to fear; No mortal so happy as I, My summer would last all the year. 3 Content with beholding His face, My all to His pleasure resign'd; No changes of seasons or place Would make any change in my mind. While bless'd with the sense of His love, A palace a toy would appear; And prisons would palaces prove, If Jesus would dwell with me there.

Oh, happy soul that lives on high

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 93 hymnals Topics: Blessedness of piety Lyrics: 1 Oh, happy soul that lives on high, While men lie grov'ling here, His hopes are fix'd above the sky, And faith forbids his fear. 2 His conscience knows no secret stings, While grace and joy combine To form a life whose holy springs Are hidden and divine. 3 He waits in secret on his God; His God in secret sees: Let earth be all in arms abroad, He dwells in heavenly peace. 4 His pleasures rise from things unseen, Beyond this world and time, Where neither eyes nor ears have been, Nor thoughts of mortals climb. 5 He looks to heaven's eternal hill, To meet that glorious day When Christ His promise shall fulfil And call his soul away.

Parent of good! thy works of might

Meter: Irregular Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 Parent of good! thy works of might I trace with wonder and delight; Thy name is all divine. There's nought in earth or sea or air, Or heav'n itself, that's good or fair, But what is wholly thine. 2 Immensely high thy glories rise; They strike my soul with sweet surprise, And sacred pleasure yield: An ocean wide without a bound, Where ev'ry noble wish is drown'd, And ev'ry want is fill's. 3 To thee my warm affections move, In sweet astonishment and love, While at thy feet I fall; I pant for nought beneath the skies; To thee my ardent wishes rise, O my eternal All! 4 What shall I do to spread thy praise, My God! through my remaining days, Or how thy name adore? To thee I consecrate my breath; Let me be thine in life and death, And thine for evermore.

Great God! our joyful thanks to thee

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 Great God! our joyful thanks to thee Shall, like thy gifts, continual be: In constant streams thy bounty flows, Nor end nor interruption knows. 2 From thee our comforts all arise, Our num'rous wants thy hand supplies; Nor can we ever, Lord, be poor, Who live on thy exhaustless store. 3 Deep, Lord, upon our thankful breast Let all thy favors be imp rest; That we may never more forget The whole or any single debt. 4 May we with grateful hearts each day For all thy gifts our praises pay; And still delighted may we be, In all things to give thanks to thee.

God of my life, through all its days

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 240 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 God of my life, through all its days, My grateful pow'rs shall sound thy praise; My song shall wake with op'ning light, And cheer the dark and silent night. 2 When anxious cares would break my rest, And griefs would tear my throbbing breast, Thy tuneful praises, rais'd on high, Shall check the murmur and the sigh. 3 When death o’er nature shall prevail, And all its pow'rs of language fail; Joy through my swimming eyes shall break, And mean the thanks I cannot speak. 4 But O when that last conflict’s o’er, And I am chain'd to earth no more, With what glad accents shall I rise To join the music of the skies! 5 Soon shall I learn th' exalted strains Which echo through the heav'nly plains; And emulate, with joy unknown, The glowing seraphs round the throne.

O Lord! my best desires fulfil

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 258 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 O Lord! my best desires fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to thy will; And make thy pleasure mine. 2 Why should I shrink at thy command Whose love forbids my fears? Or tremble at the gracious hand That wipes away my tears? 3 No; let me rather freely yield What most I prize to thee, Who never hast a good withheld, Or wilt withhold from me. 4 Wisdom and mercy guide my way: Shall I resist them both? Short-sighted creature of a day, And crush'd before the moth? 5 But ah! my heart within me cries, Still bind me to thy sway; Else the next cloud that veils my skies Drives all these thoughts away.

When present suff'rings pain our hearts

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 When present suff'rings pain my heart, Or future terrors rise, And life and hope almost depart From these dejected eyes: 2 Thy pow'rful word supports my hope, Sweet cordial of the mind! And bears my fainting spirit up, And bids me wait resign'd. 3 And og! whate're of earthly bliss Thy providence denies, Accepted at thy throne of grace Let this petition rise: 4 Give me a calm, a thankful heart, From ev'ry murmur free; The blessings of thy grace impart, And let me live to thee. 5 Let the sweet hope, that I am thine, My path of life attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end!

Why sinks my weak desponding mind?

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 68 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 Why sinks my weak desponding mind? Why heaves my heart the anxious sigh? Can sov'reign goodness be unkind? Am I not safe, if God be nigh? 2 He holds all nature in his hand: That gracious hand on which I live, Does life, and time, and death command, And has immortal joys to give. 3 Infinite wisdom! boundless pow'r! Unchanging faithfulness and love!-- Here let me trust, while I adore, Nor from my refuge e'er remove. 5 Forgive my doubts, O gracious Lord! And ease the sorrows of my breast; Speak to my heart the healing word, That thou art mine,--and I am blest.

Why is my heart with grief opprest?

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Duties of Piety Lyrics: 1 Why is my heart with grief oppress? Can all the pains I feel or fear Make thee, my soul, forget thy rest, Forget that God, thy God is near? 2 Mortality's unnumber'd ills Are all beneath his sov'reign hand; Each pain, which this frail body feels, Attends, obedient, his command. 3 Lord, form my temper to thy will! If thou my faith and patience prove, May ev'ry painful stroke fulfil The purposes of faithful love! 4 O may this weak, this fainting mind A Father's hand adoring see; Confess thee just, and wise, and kind, And trust thy word, and cleave to thee!