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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 JESU, the Strength of all that faint, When wilt Thou hear my sad complaint? Jesu, the weary wanderer’s Rest, When wilt Thou take me to Thy breast? 2 My spirit mourns, by Thee forgot, And droops my heart, where Thou art not: My soul is all an aching void, And pines, and thirsts, and gasps for God. 3 The pain of absence still I prove, Sick of desire, but not of love: Weary of life, I ever groan, I long to lay the burden down. 4 ’Tis burden all, and pain, and strife: O, give me
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