Wesley, John and Charles

2277. Hear, earth and heaven, with wonder hear[from Hymns on the Four Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles. Including Such "Short Hymns" as Were Published in 1762.]

1868

" My heart within like wax doth melt, / And on Thy cross my nature bleeds."

Gross darkness, such as may be felt,
  Egyptian night my soul o'erspreads;
My heart within like wax doth melt,
  And on Thy cross my nature bleeds.

Uncategorized::Wax::Melting

Searching "wax" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching soul.

Text from The Poetical works of John and Charles Wesley, Ed. G. Osborn, 13 vols. (London: The Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868). <Link to Hathi Trust>

More than 5,100 hymns written by Wesley for Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, with six books of material left (over 1,000 hymns) in manuscript. Unpublished were the hymns on the "Four Gospels and the Acts of Apostles."

03/27/2005