Christian Poetry Volume 3

Christian Poetry - VOLUME 3 A selection of famous and not so famous poems and lyrics on spiritual themes This Collection of 63 poems by various authors including Christina Rossetti, Thomas Ken, John Nelson Darby, Richard Baxter, Isaac Watts, Gerhardt Ter Steegan, Anne Ross Cousin and many others has been brought together in order that these spiritual truths and impressions, presented in poetical form, will comfort and edify God’s people as they wrestle daily with the world, the flesh, and the devil. To know that others have felt what we have felt, ‘Through all the changing scenes of life , In trouble and in joy’ to hear the feelings in our hearts echoed back to us, to be reminded of our Lord’s love, will comfort the soul and bring encouragement. Some of the poems and lyrics included will be familiar as they have been set to music and become famous hymns – as John Newton puts it ‘these are not ‘odes’, but are truths put plainly and simply for ordinary people to understand’. Some others are perhaps more deep and thought- provoking. Perhaps listening to them being read, instead of being sung will allow you to appreciate the sentiments in a different way. This Volume contains 63 poems by various authors including Christina Rossetti, Thomas Ken, John Nelson Darby, Richard Baxter, Isaac Watts, Gerhardt Ter Steegan, Anne Ross Cousin and many others. This audio edition is produced with the prayerful desire that the Blessed Spirit of God may be pleased to use it for Christ’s Glory and for the comfort, encouragement and edification of God’s people. These poems are read by Alex Wyndham, Paul Ansdell, Anita Wright and Stuart Packer. Copyright Words by the Wayside, 2015. VOLUME 3 DISC 1 1 Introduction 2 The Sands of Time are Sinking By Anne Ross Cousin 3 A Prayer By Miss Gwyneth M. Bloomfield 4 With Christ By Richard Baxter 5 The Glory of His Grace Author Unknown 6 Our Saviour Christ By William Kelly 7 Dost Thou not care? By Christina Georgina Rossetti 8 Not all the blood of beasts By Isaac Watts 9 Morning Sacrifice By Thomas Ken 10 Who shall deliver Me? By Christina Georgina Rossetti 11 The Refiner's Fire Author Unknown 12 The young Christian By Margaret Mauro 13 Night Blessing By Thomas Ken 14 Alone By Miss Doris Markham 15 My Desire For Thee By Lord A.P. Cecil 16 Casting all your Care upon God By Thomas Washbourne 17 All the way my Saviour leads me, By Fanny J. Crosby 18 The Preacher By Richard Baxter 19 When we reach our peaceful dwelling By Anne Ross Cousin 20 Thy Way, not Mine By Horatius Bonar 21 My song is love unknown By Samuel Crossman 22 Jesus calls us O’er the Tumult By Cecil Frances Alexander 23 Crucifixion to the world by the cross By Isaac Watts 24 Despised and Rejected By Christina Georgina Rossetti. 25 Jehovah Jireh By William Cowper 26 The Paradise of God By Frances Bevan 27 Blest cross! blest sepulchre! By John Bunyan 28 Thy Will, Not Mine By F.W. Pitt 29 Beneath the Cross of Jesus By Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 30 The Last Words of J.G Bellett By J.G. Bellett 31 Be Thou my Vision Gaelic 8th Century 32 Oh, the bitter shame and sorrow By Theodore Monod 33 Christ Jesus Only By E.H. Chater 34 O Love that wilt not let me go By George Matheson 35 Man of sorrows By Phillip P. Bliss 36 Found By Gerhardt Ter Steegan 37 Christ my All-in-all By John Mason 38 What was it O Our God By Ann Gilbert 39 Alas! And did my Saviour bleed By Isaac Watts 40 Speak Lord in the Stillness By Emily Mary Crawford 41 My Beloved is mine, and I am His By John Quarles 42 Our labour and our pleasure Author Unknown 43 Touching the King By C. Deayton 44 Ο Christ, what burdens bow'd thy head! By Anne Ross Cousin 45 Allured into the desert By Gerhard Ter Steegan 46 On the Lord's Supper By Nick Needham 47 The Blessèd Morrow By Gerhardt Ter Steegan 48 A Prayer By Humfrey Gifford 49 Whiter than Snow By Gerhardt Ter Steegan 50 My Welcome Author Unknown Christian Poetry VOLUME 3 A selection of famous and not so famous poems and lyrics on spiritual themes This Collection of 63 poems by various authors including Christina Rossetti, Thomas Ken, John Nelson Darby, Richard Baxter, Isaac Watts, Gerhardt Ter Steegan, Anne Ross Cousin and many others has been brought together in order that these spiritual truths and impressions, presented in poetical form, will comfort and edify God’s people as they wrestle daily with the world, the flesh, and the devil. To know that others have felt what we have felt, ‘Through all the changing scenes of life , In trouble and in joy’ to hear the feelings in our hearts echoed back to us, to be reminded of our Lord’s love, will comfort the soul and bring encouragement. Some of the poems and lyrics included will be familiar as they have been set to music and become famous hymns – as John Newton puts it ‘these are not ‘odes’, but are truths put plainly and simply for ordinary people to understand’. Some others are perhaps more deep and thought- provoking. Perhaps listening to them being read, instead of being sung will allow you to appreciate the sentiments in a different way. This Volume contains 63 poems by various authors including Christina Rossetti, Thomas Ken, John Nelson Darby, Richard Baxter, Isaac Watts, Gerhardt Ter Steegan, Anne Ross Cousin and many others. This audio edition is produced with the prayerful desire that the Blessed Spirit of God may be pleased to use it for Christ’s Glory and for the comfort, encouragement and edification of God’s people. These poems are read by Alex Wyndham, Paul Ansdell, Anita Wright and Stuart Packer. Copyright Words by the Wayside, 2015. VOLUME 3 DISC 1 1 Introduction 2 The Sands of Time are Sinking By Anne Ross Cousin 3 A Prayer By Miss Gwyneth M. Bloomfield 4 With Christ By Richard Baxter 5 The Glory of His Grace Author Unknown 6 Our Saviour Christ By William Kelly 7 Dost Thou not care? By Christina Georgina Rossetti 8 Not all the blood of beasts By Isaac Watts 9 Morning Sacrifice By Thomas Ken 10 Who shall deliver Me? By Christina Georgina Rossetti 11 The Refiner's Fire Author Unknown 12 The young Christian By Margaret Mauro 13 Night Blessing By Thomas Ken 14 Alone By Miss Doris Markham 15 My Desire For Thee By Lord A.P. Cecil 16 Casting all your Care upon God By Thomas Washbourne 17 All the way my Saviour leads me, By Fanny J. Crosby 18 The Preacher By Richard Baxter 19 When we reach our peaceful dwelling By Anne Ross Cousin 20 Thy Way, not Mine By Horatius Bonar 21 My song is love unknown By Samuel Crossman 22 Jesus calls us O’er the Tumult By Cecil Frances Alexander 23 Crucifixion to the world by the cross By Isaac Watts 24 Despised and Rejected By Christina Georgina Rossetti. 25 Jehovah Jireh By William Cowper 26 The Paradise of God By Frances Bevan 27 Blest cross! blest sepulchre! By John Bunyan 28 Thy Will, Not Mine By F.W. Pitt 29 Beneath the Cross of Jesus By Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane 30 The Last Words of J.G Bellett By J.G. Bellett 31 Be Thou my Vision Gaelic 8th Century 32 Oh, the bitter shame and sorrow By Theodore Monod 33 Christ Jesus Only By E.H. Chater 34 O Love that wilt not let me go By George Matheson 35 Man of sorrows By Phillip P. Bliss 36 Found By Gerhardt Ter Steegan 37 Christ my All-in-all By John Mason 38 What was it O Our God By Ann Gilbert 39 Alas! And did my Saviour bleed By Isaac Watts 40 Speak Lord in the Stillness By Emily Mary Crawford 41 My Beloved is mine, and I am His By John Quarles 42 Our labour and our pleasure Author Unknown 43 Touching the King By C. Deayton 44 Ο Christ, what burdens bow'd thy head! By Anne Ross Cousin 45 Allured into the desert By Gerhard Ter Steegan 46 On the Lord's Supper By Nick Needham 47 The Blessèd Morrow By Gerhardt Ter Steegan 48 A Prayer By Humfrey Gifford 49 Whiter than Snow By Gerhardt Ter Steegan 50 My Welcome Author Unknown 51 Song in the Day of the East Wind By Paul Gerhardt 52 Thirty Pieces of Silver Author Unknown 53 Brought Nigh By Frances Bevan 54 The Holy Field By Henry Hart Milman 55 Count your many Blessings By Johnson Oatman 56 O Teach me what it meaneth By Lucy Ann Bennett 57 The Example of the Saints By Isaac Watts 58 Rock of Ages By Augustus Montague Toplady 59 Christ My All in All By David Buttram 60 The Man of Sorrows By John Nelson Darby 61 Achan By Miss J. Leake 62 LORD! give me grace to look to thee Author unknown 63 Change of Raiment By Gerhardt Ter Steegen 64 On Christ the Solid Rock By Edward Mote