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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 3 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 WITH pity, Lord, a sinner see, Weary of Thy ways and Thee; Forgive my fond despair A blessing in the means to find, My struggling to throw off the care, And cast them all behind. 2 Long have I groan’d Thy grace to gain, Suffer’d on, but all in vain: An age of mournful years I waited for Thy passing by, And lost my prayers, my sighs, and tears, And never found Thee nigh. 3 Thou wouldst not let me go away; Still Thou forcest me to stay. O might the secret power Which will not with its