The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal

Havergal, Frances Ridley (1836-1879)

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VOLUME I.

The Ministry of Song.

[dedication]

Prelude.

The Ministry of Song.

Our Hidden Leaves.

Threefold Praise.

PART I. Haydn's ‘Creation.’

II.

PART II. Mendelssohn's ‘Elijah.’

III.

PART III. Handel's ‘Messiah.’

One Question, Many Answers.

Content.

Misunderstood.

Sunbeams in the Wood.

No Thorn without a Rose.

Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever.

Christ's Recall.

Faith's Question.

‘I did this for thee! What hast thou done for Me?’

Isaiah xxxiii. 17.

God the Provider.

Wait patiently for Him.

‘The Things which are Behind.’

How Should They Know Me?

Fairy Homes.

II.

III.

IV.

A Birthday Greeting to me Father.

A Lull in Life.

Adoration.

Early Poems.

‘I leave it all with Thee.’

Matthew xiv. 23.

Matthew xxvi. 30.

‘Leaving us an Example, that ye should follow His Steps.’

Our English Sabbaths.

The Spirit's Longings.

The Old and the New Earth.

Thoughts awakened by Astley Bells.

‘Pray for me.’

On the Death of Captain Allan Gardiner,

‘Thank God.’

The Maidens of England

‘No, not a Star.’

Miscellaneous Poems.

The Queen of the Sea.

The Wandering Sunbeam.

The Song of a Summer Stream.

To the Choir of Llangryffyth.

The Turned Lesson.

Leaning over the Waterfall.

The Seed of Song.

Finis.

Enigmas and Charades.

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12.

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17.

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20.

21.

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11.

12.

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Who will take Care of Me?

Something to Do.

Loving Messages for the Little Ones.

[Every little flower that grows]

[Fair the blossoms opening early!]

[Grace and glory! They are yours]

[Have you not a song for Jesus?]

[Knowing Christ was crucified]

[Opening flowers I send to you]

F. R. H.'s Thanks.

F. R. H.'s Thanks,

Inscription in a Copy of ‘Life's Morning.’

Little Nora.

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‘Come over and Help Us.’

The English Child's Reply.

The Disappointed Carol Singers.

The Happiest Christmas Day.

Coming into the Shade.

Begin at Once.

‘That's not the Way at Sea.’

Welcome to Winterdyne.

To Jericho and Back.

My Nest.

Ethelbert's ‘Coming Home in the Dark.’

Songs.

National Hymn.

Scotland's Welcome to H.R.H. Princess Louise.

Severn Song.

For Charity.

The Devonshire Yeoman's Home.

The Dawn of May.

The Tyrolese Spring Song.

Thinking together, or Gravitation.

There is Music by the River.

‘The Shining Light, that shineth more and more unto the Perfect Day.’

Golden Land.

Twilight Voices.

Hymns.

Prayer before Church.

A Prayer.

Thoughts.

‘He that Overcometh.’

A Song of Welcome.

‘The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.’—

[O Spirit of our Triune Lord]

New Year Hymn.

Hymn for Ireland.

Church Missionary Jubilee Hymn.

Thy Father Waits for Thee.

Will You not Come?

What will You do without Him?

‘Forgiven—even until Now.’

Our Saviour Christ was Born.

Christmas Gifts.

Christmas Mottoes.

[Unto you the Child is born]

[The wilderness shall rejoice]

[Is it a wintry night?]

[Cometh in lowliness]

[Bright be thy Christmas tide!]

[What do the angels sing?]

[Oh, Christmas blessings cannot cease]

Christmas Gifts.

[The wondrous love and light]

[A happy, happy Christmas]

[Down the ages hoary]

Christmas Sunshine.

[Do the angels know the blessed day]

[Jesus came!—and came for me!]

[Oh, let thy heart make melody]

[A happy, happy Christmas]

[There is silence high in the midnight sky]

[Great is the mystery]

[What was the first angelic word]

[Christ is come to be my Friend]

[Give me a song, O Lord]

[Swell the notes of the Christmas Song!]

[Christ is come to be thy light]

TITLES OF CHRIST.

Wonderful.

Counsellor.

The Everlasting Father.

A Happy New Year to You.

[The Lord hath done great things for thee!]

[Crown the year with Thy goodness, Lord!]

[Strong and loving is thy Friend!]

[Toward the rising of the sun]

[Another year of patient toil]

[Praising together for all the way]

[Eternity with Jesus]

[The threefold blessing Israel heard]

[Lord Jesus, keep our dear one]

[One year less]

[The Lord thy God!]

[The future! who may lift the veil]

[Now Thy loving Spirit]

[‘Not as the world giveth]

[This New Year Thou givest me]

[A bright New Year, and a sunny track]

[Another year for Jesus!]

[Is the work difficult?]

[Happy, because He loves thee!]

[For the weariest day]

Easter Echoes.

[Arise, for He is risen to-day]

[The white flowers, freed]

[In the likeness of His death]

[‘Shall rise again!’]

[Far on the mountain height]

[Only a leaf, yet it shall bear]

[‘Grace, mercy, peace.’]

[Upon the same bright morning star]

[As the sounding shell conveys]

[Though the circling flight of time may find us]

Birthday Mottoes.

[May the tale the years are telling]

[Many a happy year be thine]

[Many and happy thy birthdays be!]

[Love would strew upon thy way]

[‘Upward, still upward’ thy pathway be]

[Birthday blessings, fullest, sweetest]

[The Love of God the Father]

[Leaning, resting, trusting, loving]

[We pray Thee for our dear one!]

[A holy, happy birthday]

[I have no birthday gifts to bring]

To M. V. G. H.

M. L. C.'s Birthday Crown.

To John Henry C--- on his Third Birthday.

For Elizabeth Clay's Birthday.

‘Coming of Age.’

To the Rev. C. B. Snepp.

To F. M. G. on her Brother's Death.

Evelyn.

Starlight through the Shadows.

In Loyal and Loving Remembrance of H.R.H. the Princess Alice.

II.

The Moonlight Sonata.

II.

PART II.—(ALLEGRETTO.)

III.

PART III.—(PRESTO AGITATO.)

Conclusion.

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II. Our God.

The Infinity of God.

The Spirituality of God.

The Eternity of God.

The Sovereignty of God.

The Essential Blessedness of God.

III.

I could not do without Thee.

IV.

Have You not a Word for Jesus?

A Worker's Prayer.

Our Commission.

Singing for Jesus.

A Silence and a Song.

The Coming of the Healer.

Another for Christ.

‘How Wonderful!’

Valiant for the Truth.

A Plea for the Little Ones.

Tell it Out.

Sisters.

An Indian Flag.

The Lull of Eternity.

The Sowers.

[In the morning sow thy seed, nor stay thy hand at evening hour]

[‘Such as I have I sow, it is not much,’]

[Such the sowing; what the reaping? Many a full and precious ear]

[One by one, no longer]

[But Eternity is long]

[She who timidly had scattered]

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

[He that goeth forth and weepeth, seed of grace in sorrow bringing]

V. Our Blessings.

Everlasting Blessings.

Accepted.

Fresh Springs.

Faithful Promises.

The Faithful Comforter.

Under His Shadow.

Covenant Blessings.

The Triune Presence.

VI.

VI. Now and Afterward.

Now and Afterward.

‘Tempted and Tried!’

Not Forsaken.

Listening in Darkness—Speaking in Light.

Evening Tears and Morning Songs.

II.

III.

VII.

VII. The Church of Christ.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VI. Presented Faultless.

VII.

VII. Glorified.

VIII.

VIII. Lights and Shadows of Spring-time.

The Message of an Aeolian Harp.

Baby's Turn.

The Children's Triumph.

The First Smile.

The Sunday Book.

Amy.

‘It is well with the Child.’

At Home To-night.

Two Rings.

IX.

IX. Songs.

‘Bells across the Snow.’

Singing at Sunset.

Heather Lintie.

II.

III.

Sunbeam and Dewdrop.

Dream-Singing.

She Waits for Me.

X. A Mountain Cantata.

The Mountain Maidens.

II.

III.

15.

July on the Mountains.

For New Year's Day, 1874.

The Secret of a Happy Day.

The Unfailing One.

On the Lord's Side.

True-hearted, Whole-hearted.

‘By Thy Cross and Passion.’

The Opened Fountain.

The Precious Blood of Jesus.

‘Nobody Knows but Jesus.’

Tried, Precious Sure.

Just when Thou wilt.

Verses on Texts.

[Thou layest Thy hand on the fluttering heart]

[His love is the key and His glory the measure]

[Upon Thy word I rest]

[Rest, and be silent! For, faithfully listening]

[For He hath given us a changeless writing]

[Let every thought]

[And if it seemeth good to Thee, my Father]

[The token of His truth and care, the gift that He hath blessed]

[Thy light and truth forth-sending]

[O mystery of grace]

[Thy Spirit's fulness on him rest]

[Oh may'st thou walk! from hour to hour]

[On Thee the Lord]

[Fear not the westering shadows]

[O mountain heights, break forth and sing]

[There is One, so fair, so bright]

[Hast thou not heard within some sacred pile]

[A life is before thee which cannot decay]

A Covenant.

Only for Jesus.

Chosen Lessons.

Hitherto and Henceforth.

Rhymed Mottoes for the Members of the Open-Air Mission.

[‘Occupy till I return:’]

[Be not far from me, we pray]

[Thou art faithful; praise Thy name]

[‘He that winneth souls is wise’]

[So may we redeem the time]

[Let us, by Thy Spirit stirred]

Advent Thoughts.

[O herald whisper falling]

[Advent shadows gather deep]

The Ministry of Intercession.

‘The Splendour of God's Will.’

The Two Paths.

Sunday Night.

Precious Things.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

‘Afterwards.’

‘Vessels of Mercy, Prepared unto Glory.’

A Song in the Night.

The Voice of Many Waters.

The Scripture Cannot be Broken.

Unfinished Fragments.

[‘Arise, depart! for this is not your rest!’]

Most Blessed for Ever.

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Fairy Homes.

I've found at last the hiding-place
Where the fairy people dwell,
And to win the secrets of their race
I hold the long-sought spell.

With the woodland fairies I can talk,
I can list their silvery lays;
Oh! pleasant in a lonely walk
Is the company of fays.

No fabled fancy 'tis to me,
For in every floweret's bell
Is a tiny chamber, where I see
A gentle fairy dwell.

And at my bidding forth they come,
To soothe me or to cheer,
And to tell me tales of fairydom
With voices soft and clear.

Full many a beauteous lesson, too,
Their rosy lips can teach;
Great men would wonder if they knew
How well the fairies preach!

When thoughts of sorrow sadden me,
They seem to sympathize,
And gaze upon me lovingly,
With tender earnest eyes;

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But when a tide of joyous glee
Is bringing song and smile,
Then brightly they look up to me,
And laugh with me awhile.

Oh! lovely are the floweret homes
Of these sweet summer fays;
God's thoughts of beauty taking form
To gladden mortal gaze.

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Fairy Homes.