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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Is like a ship in midst of tempest left,

Withouten helm or pilot her to sway;

Full sad and dreadful is that ship’s event:

So is the man that wants intendiment.

Spenser.

Wisdom, the antidote of sad despair,

Makes sharp afflictions seem not as they are,

Through patient sufferance; and doth apprehend,

Not as they seeming are, but as they end.

Francis Quarles.