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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 5 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 THOU very present Aid In suffering and distress, The soul, which still on Thee is stay’d, Is kept in perfect peace; The soul by faith reclined On his Redeemer’s breast, ’Midst raging storms exults to find An everlasting rest. 2 Sorrow and fear are gone, Whene’er Thy face appears, It stills the sighing orphan’s moan, And dries the widow’s tears; It hallows every cross, It sweetly comforts me, And makes me now forget my loss, And lose myself in Thee. 3 Peace to the troubled