James Montgomery

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Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

James Montgomery (November 4, 1771 – April 30, 1854) was a British editor and poet.

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[edit] Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• When the good man yields his breath
  (For the good man never dies).
  • The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v. Compare: "Say not that the good die" (translated from original Greek), Callimachus, Epigram x.

• Gashed with honourable scars,
  Low in Glory's lap they lie;
  Though they fell, they fell like stars,
  Streaming splendour through the sky.
  • The Battle of Alexandria.

• Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.
  • The Ocean, Line 54.

• Once, in the flight of ages past,
  There lived a man.
  • The Common Lot.

• Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
  • The West Indies, Part iii.

• Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
  • The World before the Flood, Canto v. Compare: "It is to hope, though hope were lost", Anna Letitia Barbauld, Come here, Fond Youth.

• Joys too exquisite to last,
  And yet more exquisite when past.
  • The Little Cloud.

• Bliss in possession will not last;
  Remembered joys are never past;
  At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
  They were, they are, they yet shall be.
  • The Little Cloud.

• Friend after friend departs;
  Who hath not lost a friend?
  There is no union here of hearts
  That finds not here an end.
  • Friends.

• Nor sink those stars in empty night:
  They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
  • Friends.

• 'T is not the whole of life to live,
  Nor all of death to die.
  • The Issues of Life and Death.

• Beyond this vale of tears
  There is a life above,
  Unmeasured by the flight of years;
  And all that life is love.
  • The Issues of Life and Death.

• Night is the time to weep,
  To wet with unseen tears
  Those graves of memory where sleep
  The joys of other years.
  • The Issues of Life and Death.

• Who that hath ever been
  Could bear to be no more?
  Yet who would tread again the scene
  He trod through life before?
  • The Falling Leaf.

• Here in the body pent,
  Absent from Him I roam,
  Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
  A day's march nearer home.
  • At Home in Heaven.

• If God hath made this world so fair,
  Where sin and death abound,
  How beautiful beyond compare
  Will paradise be found!
  • The Earth full of God's Goodness.

• Return unto thy rest, my soul,
  From all the wanderings of thy thought,
  From sickness unto death made whole,
  Safe through a thousand perils brought.
  • Rest for the Soul.

• Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
  Uttered or unexpressed,—
  The motion of a hidden fire
  That trembles in the breast.
  • What is Prayer?

• Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
  The falling of a tear,
  The upward glancing of an eye
  When none but God is near.
  • What is Prayer?

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• Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.

Introductory Essay-Christian Psalmist,or Hymns Selected & Original 1825

[edit] Quotes about Montgomery

• As a poet Miontgomery stands well to the front.His poetic genius was of a high order.John Julian,Dictionary of Hymnolgy.J Murray ISBN 978-0719507212

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