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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The poetical publications of John and Charles Wesley originally appeared at various intervals during a span of fifty-three years. G. Osborn has collected, arranged, and provided notes for all of these important poems and hymns. Many of these works, especially those of Charles Wesley’s (whose work makes up the bulk of this collection), were never before published or published anonymously. Charles...

1 HEAR, Holy Spirit, hear, My inward Comforter! Loosed by Thee, my stammering tongue First essays to praise Thee now; This the new, the joyful song: Hear it in Thy temple Thou! 2 Long o’er my formless soul The dreary waves did roll; Void I lay, and sunk in night: Thou, the overshadowing Dove, Call’dst the chaos into light, Bad’st me be, and live, and love. 3 Thee I exult to feel, Thou in my heart dost dwell: There Thou bear’st Thy witness true, Shedd’st the love of God abroad;