University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal

Havergal, Frances Ridley (1836-1879)

collapse section 
[section]
collapse sectionI. 
VOLUME I.
collapse section 
The Ministry of Song.
  
[dedication]
  
Prelude.
  
The Ministry of Song.
  
Our Hidden Leaves.
collapse section 
Threefold Praise.
 I. 
PART I. Haydn's ‘Creation.’
 II. 
PART II. Mendelssohn's ‘Elijah.’
 III. 
PART III. Handel's ‘Messiah.’
  
Not Yet.
  
Thanksgiving.
  
Life-Crystals.
  
Not your own.
  
Wounded.
  
Whose I am.
  
Whom I serve.
  
Peace.
  
God's Message.
  
‘A great Mystery.’
  
Be not Weary.
  
The Great Teacher.
  
Auntie's Lessons.
  
Rest.
  
One Question, Many Answers.
  
Content.
  
Misunderstood.
  
Sunbeams in the Wood.
  
The Star Shower.
  
Treasure Trove.
  
Coming Summer.
  
September 1868.
  
Early Faith.
  
Our Father.
  
Disappointment.
  
The Song Chalice.
  
Silent in Love.
  
Light and Shade.
  
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.
  
This Same Jesus.
  
Mary's Birthday.
  
Daily Strength.
  
The Right Way.
  
Thy Will be done.
  
‘The Things which are Behind.’
  
‘Now I see.’
  
Everlasting Love.
  
‘Master, say on!’
  
Remote Results.
  
On the Last Leaf.
  
How Should They Know Me?
  
Making Poetry.
  
The Cascade.
  
Constance De V---.
  
Fairy Homes.
  
More Music.
  
Travelling Thoughts.
  
New Year's Wishes.
  
Bonnie Wee Eric.
  
My Sweet Woodruff.
collapse section 
Our Gem Wreath.
  
[section]
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
  
[section]
  
My Name.
  
Faith and Reason.
  
Lynton.
  
A Birthday Greeting to me Father.
  
A Lull in Life.
  
Adoration.
collapse section 
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.
  
Colossians iii. 2.
  
Clouds in Prospect.
  
Earth's Shadow.
  
Aspirations.
  
Sunset.
  
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.’
collapse section 
Miscellaneous Poems.
  
The Queen of the Sea.
  
Two Points of View.
  
Morning Song.
  
Evening Song.
  
Peace.
  
Fragments.
  
The Wandering Sunbeam.
  
May Day.
  
Forest Voices.
  
The Shower.
  
Tiny Tokens.
  
April.
  
The Song of a Summer Stream.
  
An Autumn Holiday.
  
The Song of Love.
  
The Awakening.
  
The Poet's Zenith.
  
Mischief Making.
  
The Lorely.
  
For Denmark, ho!
  
My Singing Lesson.
  
To the Choir of Llangryffyth.
  
The Turned Lesson.
  
Leaning over the Waterfall.
  
The Seed of Song.
  
Finis.
collapse section 
Enigmas and Charades.
 1. 
Enigma No. 1.
 2. 
Enigma No. 2.
 3. 
Enigma No. 3.
 4. 
Enigma No. 4.
 5. 
Enigma No. 5.
 6. 
Enigma No. 6.
 7. 
Enigma No. 7.
 8. 
Enigma No. 8.
 9. 
Enigma No. 9.
 10. 
Enigma No. 10.
 11. 
Enigma No. 11.
 12. 
Enigma No. 12.
 13. 
Enigma No. 13.
 14. 
Enigma No. 14.
 15. 
Enigma No. 15.
 16. 
Enigma No. 16.
 17. 
Enigma No. 17.
 18. 
Enigma No. 18.
 19. 
Enigma No. 19.
 20. 
Enigma No. 20.
 21. 
Enigma No. 21.
 1. 
Charade No. 1.
 2. 
Charade No. 2.
 3. 
Charade No. 3.
 4. 
Charade No. 4.
 5. 
Charade No. 5.
 6. 
Charade No. 6.
 7. 
Charade No. 7.
 8. 
Charade No. 8.
 9. 
Charade No. 9.
 10. 
Charade No. 10.
 11. 
Charade No. 11.
 12. 
Charade No. 12.
 13. 
Charade No. 13.
 14. 
Charade No. 14.
 15. 
Charade No. 15.
 16. 
Charade No. 16.
 17. 
Charade No. 17.
 18. 
Charade No. 18.
collapse section 
Chords for Children.
  
Sunday Bells.
  
Flowers.
  
Evening Prayer.
  
Stars.
  
My Little Tree.
  
Thy Kingdom Come.
  
The Moon.
  
Jessie's Friend.
  
The Bower.
  
Trust.
  
The Dying Sister.
  
The Angels' Song.
  
Who will take Care of Me?
  
Something to Do.
collapse section 
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.
collapse section 
[subsection]
  
‘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.’
collapse section 
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.
  
My Messengers.
  
God keep Thee.
  
Rose of Roses.
  
Hast Thou a Thought?
  
My Welcome.
collapse section 
[subsection]
  
A Wife's Letter.
  
The Husband's Reply.
  
Only for One.
  
One for the Other.
  
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.
collapse section 
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.’
  
He Hath Done it!
  
Asking.
  
Love for Love.
  
Nothing to Pay.
collapse section 
Christmas Verses.
  
A Merrie Christmas.
  
A Happy Christmas.
  
Our Saviour Christ was Born.
  
Christmas Gifts.
collapse section 
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]
collapse section 
Christmas Gifts.
  
[The wondrous love and light]
  
[A happy, happy Christmas]
  
[Down the ages hoary]
collapse section 
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]
collapse section 
TITLES OF CHRIST.
  
Wonderful.
  
Counsellor.
  
The Everlasting Father.
  
The Mighty God.
  
The Prince of Peace.
  
Man of Rest.
collapse section 
New Year Verses.
  
A Happy New Year to You.
  
Another Year.
  
Faithful Promises.
  
New Year's Wishes.
  
A Happy New Year.
collapse section 
New Year Mottoes.
  
[‘From this day’]
  
[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]
collapse section 
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]
  
[Oh, let me know]
collapse section 
Birthday Poems.
collapse section 
ACROSTICS.
  
Cecilia Havergal.
  
Edith Havergal.
  
For E. P. S.
collapse section 
Mizpah.
  
[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]
collapse section 
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.
  
Saturday Night.
collapse section 
Sonnets.
  
A Waking Thought.
  
Life Mosaic.
  
To Helga.
  
Memorial Names.
  
Our Red-Letter Days.
  
Luke ix. 13.
collapse section 
In Memoriam.
  
My Mother's Request.
  
May Dirge.
  
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.
collapse sectionII. 
VOLUME II.
  
[dedication]
collapse section 
[section]
collapse sectionI. 
I Under the Surface.
  
Prelude
  
Under the Surface.
  
Autobiography.
  
Compensation.
collapse section 
The Moonlight Sonata.
  
Introduction.
  
Alice's Story.
collapse section 
The Sonata.
 I. 
PART I. (ADAGIO).
 II. 
PART II.—(ALLEGRETTO.)
 III. 
PART III.—(PRESTO AGITATO.)
  
Conclusion.
collapse sectionII. 
II. Our God.
  
The Infinity of God.
  
The Spirituality of God.
  
The Eternity of God.
  
The Sovereignty of God.
  
The Essential Blessedness of God.
  
Thine is the Power.
collapse sectionIII. 
III. Our Saviour.
  
The One Reality.
  
To Thee.
  
Confidence.
  
I could not do without Thee.
  
‘Jesus only.’
  
Is it for me?
  
Hidden in Light.
  
He is thy Lord.
  
Our King.
  
Ascension Song.
  
Advent Song.
collapse sectionIV. 
IV. Our Work.
  
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.
collapse section 
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]
collapse section 
[She who timidly had scattered]
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
  
[He that goeth forth and weepeth, seed of grace in sorrow bringing]
collapse sectionV. 
V. Our Blessings.
  
Everlasting Blessings.
  
Accepted.
  
Fresh Springs.
  
Faithful Promises.
  
The Faithful Comforter.
  
Under His Shadow.
  
Covenant Blessings.
  
The Triune Presence.
collapse sectionVI. 
VI. Now and Afterward.
  
Now and Afterward.
  
‘Tempted and Tried!’
  
Not Forsaken.
  
Listening in Darkness—Speaking in Light.
  
Evening Tears and Morning Songs.
  
Peaceable Fruit.
collapse section 
Right!
 I. 
SCENE I.
 II. 
SCENE II.
 III. 
SCENE III.
  
The Col de Balm.
  
‘Eye hath not Seen.’
collapse sectionVII. 
VII. The Church of Christ.
 I. 
I. Chosen in Christ.
 II. 
II. Called.
 III. 
III. Justified.
 IV. 
IV. Sanctified.
 V. 
V. Joined to Christ.
 VI. 
VI. Presented Faultless.
 VII. 
VII. Glorified.
collapse sectionVIII. 
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.
collapse sectionIX. 
IX. Songs.
  
‘Bells across the Snow.’
  
Singing at Sunset.
collapse section 
Heather Lintie.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
  
Sunbeam and Dewdrop.
  
Dream-Singing.
  
She Waits for Me.
collapse sectionX. 
X. A Mountain Cantata.
collapse section 
The Mountain Maidens.
 I. 
Part I.—Sunrise.
 II. 
Part II.—Noon.
collapse sectionIII. 
Part III.—Sunset.
 15. 
(15.) Trio.—
collapse section 
XI. Miscellaneous.
  
A Seeing Heart.
  
July on the Mountains.
  
My Window.
  
Candlemas Day.
  
‘Now!’
  
Light at Eventide.
  
‘Yet Speaketh.’
  
For New Year's Day, 1874.
  
Finis.
collapse section 
Loyal Responses.
  
Consecration Hymn.
  
Set Apart.
  
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.
  
I Remember Thee.
  
Knowing.
  
Trusting Jesus.
  
Looking unto Jesus.
  
Shining.
  
Growing.
  
Resting.
  
Filling.
  
Increase our Faith.
  
‘Nobody Knows but Jesus.’
  
He is thy Life.
  
Enough.
  
All.
  
Only.
  
My Master.
  
Perfect Peace.
  
‘I am with Thee!’
  
Trust and Distrust.
  
Without Carefulness.
  
Thy Reign.
  
Tried, Precious Sure.
  
Just when Thou wilt.
collapse section 
Verses on Texts.
collapse section 
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.
collapse section 
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]
collapse section 
Advent Thoughts.
  
[O herald whisper falling]
  
[Advent shadows gather deep]
collapse section 
‘Under His Shadow.’
  
An Interlude.
  
Zenith.
  
The Thoughts of God.
  
The Ministry of Intercession.
  
‘Free to Serve.’
  
Coming to the King.
  
Reality.
  
Far More Exceeding.
  
‘The Splendour of God's Will.’
  
The Two Paths.
  
Sunday Night.
collapse section 
Precious Things.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VII. 
VIII.
 IX. 
IX.
 X. 
X.
 XI. 
XI.
 XII. 
XII.
 XII. 
XIII.
 XIV. 
XIV.
 XV. 
XV.
 XVI. 
XVI.
 XVII. 
XVII.
  
‘Afterwards.’
  
‘Vessels of Mercy, Prepared unto Glory.’
  
A Song in the Night.
  
The Voice of Many Waters.
  
The Key Found.
collapse section 
Closing Chords.
  
What Thou Wilt.
  
Hope.
  
Fear Not.
  
The Scripture Cannot be Broken.
  
‘He Suffered.’
  
Behold Your King.
  
An Easter Prayer.
  
Easter Dawn.
  
Unfinished Fragments.
  
[‘Arise, depart! for this is not your rest!’]
  
Most Blessed for Ever.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal
next section
170

‘It is well with the Child.’

Only one dark December time,
With chill and gloomy hours;
And now—the ‘everlasting spring,’
The ‘never-withering flowers.’
Only one week of weary pains,
With suffering oppressed;
And now—the Sabbath that remains,
God's everlasting rest.
Only one word of earthly speech,
The sweetest and the first;
And now—the songs that angels sing
From baby lips have burst.
Only one journey, fondly borne
In arms of tenderest love;
And now—no wanderings more for him,
Safe in the home above.
Yes, safe for ever, safe and blest,
Where they ‘go no more out;’
With Jesus, whom he never grieved
By any sin or doubt.
171

Not preluded by tearful prayer,
His happy praise shall swell,
And joy of ‘welcome’ shall be his
Who never knew ‘farewell.’
 

In memory of J. S., who fell asleep December 6, 1870, aged seven months. The day before his death he fixed his eyes upon his mother with a long gaze of wonderful intelligence and love, and after repeated effort, uttered distinctly the ‘one word’—‘Mamma!’

previous section The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal
next section