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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 2 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 THE children to the birth are come; But, O! they have not might To burst the barriers of the womb, And struggle into light. 2 My feeble soul gives o’er the strife, Just as it sees the skies; Fails in the very gate of life, Sinks back again, and dies. 3 I saw the port of Jesu’s breast; But, while I enter’d in, A whirlwind swept me from my rest, And plunged me into sin. 4 What shall I do, or whither turn? Despairing of relief, I, only can my ruin mourn With unavailing grief. 5 Ah, woe is