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The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Volume 7 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 COME away to the skies, My beloved arise, And rejoice on the day thou wast born, On the festival day Come exulting away, To thy heavenly country return. 2 We have laid up our love And treasure above, Though our bodies continue below; The redeem’d of the Lord We remember His word, And with singing to Sion we go. 3 With singing we praise The original grace By our heavenly Father bestow’d, Our being receive From His bounty, and live To the honour and glory of God.