John Keble

Accomplish

The Saints, like stars, around his seat Perform their courses still.

Ache

The sins that in your conscience ache.

Apart

Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.

Assail

No storm can now assail The charm he wears within.

Averted

Who scornful pass it with averted eye.

Awake

No sunny gleam awakes the trees.

Awe

There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear.

Beam

Mercy with her genial beam.

Calm

Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure.

Carol

In the darkness sing your carol of high praise.

Delicious

One draught of spring's delicious air.

Deny

Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved.

Depth

Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height.

From you unclouded depth above.

Desolate

Voice of the poor and desolate.

Despair

We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair.

Dewy

When dewy eve her curtain draws.

Disappointment

In disappointment thou canst bless.

Dole

Heaven has in store a precious dole.

Dream

Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme.

Dreary

Full many a dreary anxious hour.

Drink

Drink of the cup that can not cloy.

Drop

That drop of peace divine.

Dull

Along life's dullest, dreariest walk.

Dun

Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Dusky

Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.

Duty

With records sweet of duties done.

Each

Then draw we nearer day by day, Each to his brethren, all to God.

Eager

When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss.

Early

Seen in life's early morning sky.

Earth

Our weary souls by earth beguiled.

Easter

Sundays by thee more glorious break, An Easter day in every week.

Echo

The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever.

Elder

But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour.

Embosom

Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade.

Entice

Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven.

Envious

My soul is envious of mine eye.

Erect

But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart?

Escape

Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind

Forego

Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.

Haunt

The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure.

Haze

Above the world's uncertain haze.

Hazel

I sit me down beside the hazel grove.

Healing

Here healing dews and balms abound.

Heaven

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.

Holy

Now through her round of holy thought The Church our annual steps has brought.

Hope

New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.

Hue

Hues of the rich unfolding morn.

Hush

Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill.

Hymn

To hymn the bright of the Lord.

Jesus

Jesu, do thou my soul receive.

Love

Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own.

Outskirt

The outskirts of his march of mystery.

pain

In rapture as in pain.

Part

The pulse, the glow of every part.

There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues.

Patience

Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.

Perfect

O most entire perfect sacrifice!

Play

And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword.

Port

We are in port if we have Thee.

Portion

Man's portion is to die and rise again.

Price

New treasures still, of countless price.

Prisoner

Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing.

Pronounce

The God who hallowed thee and blessed, Pronouncing thee all good.

Proud

And shades impervious to the proud world's glare.

Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud.

Prove

So life a winter's morn may prove.

Puny

Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

Round

the trivial round, the common task.

Selfish

In that throng of selfish hearts untrue.

Sense

The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest.

Shaggy

[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell.

Sharp

In sharpest perils faithful proved.

Sickly

Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.

Sing

And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise.

Skill

Where patience her sweet skill imparts.

Son

Who gave His Son sure all has given.

Sphere

Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell.

Spirit

Ye gentle spirits far away, With whom we shared the cup of grace.

Sweeten

And sweeten every secret tear.

Swell

[The Church] swells her high, heart-cheering tone.

Thanksgiving

And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.

Three

Three solemn aisles approach the shrine.

Time

Till time and sin together cease.

Tone

Tones that with seraph hymns might blend.

Transporting

Your transporting chords ring out.

Trine

Eternal One, Almighty Trine!

Trivial

The trivial round, the common task.

Tuft

Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade.

Unready

Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast.

Vassal

The sun and every vassal star.

vernal

And seems it hard thy vernal years Few vernal joys can show?

Virtue

The virtue of his midnight agony.

Wake

Then wake, my soul, to high desires.

Walk

As we walk our earthly round.

Wane

Though the year be on the wane.

Warm

Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.

Watchful

'Twixt prayer and watchful love his heart dividing.

Wayward

Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought?

Wear

His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine.

Weight

[He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.

Well

A well of serious thought and pure.

Western

Far o'er the glowing western main.

Whisper

Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed.

Wintry

Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile.

Woodland

Like summer breeze by woodland stream.

Worldling

And worldlings blot the temple's gold.

Yellow

The line of yellow light dies fast away.

Yield

One calmly yields his willing breath.

Yon

Though fast yon shower be fleeting.

Yore

Where Abraham fed his flock of yore.