Mediæval Hymns and SequencesJ. Masters, 1867 - 224 pages |
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Adam Alleluia Amen Ancient and Modern Angels Apostles Ayguan beareth Beatific Vision beauty behold Blessed blest Blood Breviary bright Canonical Hours celestial choir CHRIST Church Cock Compline Cross Crown crucified death Decachord deeds Dies Ira Draw nigh earth edition Eternal everlasting evermore faith FATHER Feast foes Fulbert of Chartres give glorious glory God's grace Hail hath heart heaven heavenly Hildebert HOLY GHOST honour hymn Hymnal Noted Hymns Ancient Jerusalem JESUS King laud light lion LORD LORD's Marbodus medieval melody mystic Notker o'er Pange lingua Passiontide peace Peter Damiani poem poet praise Priest prose Prudentius ransomed rejoice rhyme Saints salvation Sarum Satan's senses fail Septuagesima Sequence shines signifies sing sinners sorrow soul SPIRIT strife sung sweet sweetest Theban Legion Thee thence Thine things Thou art Tis the Name to-day translation true unto Venantius Fortunatus verse Victor Virgin Mary Word becometh Flesh
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Page 182 - Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.
Page 26 - Thou didst accept their praises ; Accept the prayers we bring, Who in all good delightest, Thou good and gracious King.
Page 77 - But He whom now we trust in Shall then be seen and known, And they that know and see Him Shall have Him for their own.
Page 71 - THE world is very evil, The times are waxing late : Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate ; — The Judge that comes in mercy, The Judge that comes with might, To terminate the evil, To diadem the right.
Page 76 - BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest.
Page 80 - Thou hast no shore, fair ocean ! Thou hast no time, bright day...
Page 14 - Offered was He for greatest and for least, Himself the Victim, and Himself the Priest.
Page 25 - Thou art the King of Israel, thou David's royal Son, who in the Lord's name comest, the King and blessed one...
Page 6 - THE royal banners forward go, The cross shines forth in mystic glow ; Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
Page 89 - No loss, no grief, no change wait on their winged hours. But now their naked bodies scorn the cold, And from their eyes joy looks, and laughs at pain ; The infant wonders how he came so old...