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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And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.—Haggai, ii. 7.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.—Philippians, i. 23.

But our desires’ tyrannical extortion

Doth force us there to set our chief delightfulness,

When but a baiting-place is all our portion.

Sir P. Sidney.

Thou blind man’s mark; thou fool’s self-chosen snare,

Fond fancy’s scum, and dregs of scatter’d thought;

Band of all evils; cradle of causeless care;

Thou web of ill, whose end is never wrought,