A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in Him.—Lamentations, iii. 24.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.—Lamentations, iii. 26.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.—I. Corinthians, xv. 19.

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.—Hebrews, vi. 19.

Upon her arm a silver anchor lay,

Whereon she leaned ever, as befel:

And ever up to Heaven as she did pray,

Her steadfast eyes were bent, not swerved otherway.

Spenser.

Hope, eager hope, the assassin of our joy,