Hours of Sorrow

by Charlotte Elliott

79 chapters2h 15mEnglish1836

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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)

Chapters (79)

1To the Reader

170

2Sonnet to the Harp

3Invocation to the Holy Spirit

4The Minstrel

5Address to Sorrow

123

6The Wanderer

7The Contrite Heart

8The Æolian Harp

9St. Matthew, v. 4

10Retrospection

11The Valley of Tears

185

12The Skylark

13The Moon over the Sea

14On Sacred Music

141

15On the same Subject

16Stanzas for a Friend in Sorrow

234

17The Requiem

184

18On Noah's Dove: a Similitude

19The Vestal

20On a Spring Morning

21On an Early Violet

22The "Still Small Voice"

103

23To the Nightingale

24A Search after Happiness

248

25The Hour of Prayer

26A Prayer at Midnight

27"The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter"

131

28Rest for the Weary

29To one suffering from Deafness

30On a Frosty Evening

31On the Forget-me-not

32To a Aged Christian on his Birth-day

104

33On the Anniversary of a Child's Death

34To a Widowed Friend

35"She goeth unto the grave to weep there"

36From a Dying Child

114

37To the Evening-Star

38The Christian near his Home

158

39To one restless and unhappy

103

40"My Son, give me thy Heart"

109

41To a Friend setting out on a Journey

42To one bereaved of many Relatives

43The Death-bed of a Christian

229

44A Dream

219

45A Vision, composed during a Thunderstorm in the Night

193

46On the Death of Two Infants

127

47Anticipations

152

48On the Words uttered by a Dying Child, speaking of Jesus

108

49On a Young Friend's Illness

114

50On a restless Night, in Illness

51On hearing a Canary-Bird sing in London

141

52On an Infant who lived only a few Months

53From a Mother to her departed Babe

54Epitaph

55To a bereaved Christian Friend

56To "the Infant Lyra"

170

57Prayer for the Consecration of Talent

58The Pilgrim

59To a Mother, on the Death of a Child of great promise

60To a Mother bereaved of her only Daughter

61To Faith. Written in Illness

62"Have I not remembered Thee on my Bed?"

63To one whose Mind was disordered by Grief

64The Widowed Heart

223

65"Thy will be done"

66Prayer to the Saviour

112

67On the Midnight preceding Good Friday

107

68The Ark

69"Be not faithless, but believing"

70Written for one not likely to recover

111

71To one deprived of Hearing at Church by Deafness

72"Return unto thy Rest, O my Soul!"

73On the Anniversary of a Friend's Death

102

74"All things are become new"

75To one who had lost an only Sister

131

76Hymn for a Dying Bed

77Prayer for a departing Spirit

129

78Hymn of the emancipated Soul

125

79Closing Sonnet

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