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Famous James Montgomery Quotes

“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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Baptize the nations! far and nigh,
The triumphs of the cross record
The name of Jesus glorify,
Till every people call Him Lord.”

James Montgomery

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 322.
Other

“Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.”

James Montgomery

The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).”

James Montgomery

The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v. Compare: "Say not that the good die" (translated from original Greek), Callimachus, Epigram x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The nursery of brooding Pelicans,
The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,
And all the minor spots of rock and verdure,
The abodes of happy millions, were no more.”

James Montgomery

Canto VI, line 74.
The Pelican Island (1827)

“Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.”

James Montgomery

Canto V, line 144.
The Pelican Island (1827)

James Montgomery Quotes about death

“If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!”

James Montgomery

The Earth full of God's Goodness.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.”

James Montgomery

The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

James Montgomery

Rest for the Soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

James Montgomery Quotes

“Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.”

James Montgomery

The Ocean, Line 54.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

James Montgomery

Introductory Essay-Christian Psalmist,or Hymns Selected & Original (1825).
Other

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

James Montgomery

What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.”

James Montgomery

The West Indies, Part iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Who that hath ever been
Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene
He trod through life before?”

James Montgomery

The Falling Leaf.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“When to the cross I turn my eyes,
And rest on Calvary,
O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,
I must remember Thee.”

James Montgomery

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 173.
Other

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

James Montgomery

Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.”

James Montgomery

The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

James Montgomery

At Home in Heaven.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

James Montgomery

Friends.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

James Montgomery

What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.”

James Montgomery

The World before the Flood, Canto v. Compare: "It is to hope, though hope were lost", Anna Letitia Barbauld, Come here, Fond Youth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

James Montgomery

The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky.”

James Montgomery

The Battle of Alexandria.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.”

James Montgomery

The Common Lot.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey,
Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,
Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;
Till, swoln with captures, the unwieldy burden
Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,
These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.
There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,
Gorging their hapless victims one by one;
Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,
Till evening roused them to the chase again.”

James Montgomery

Canto IV, line 141.
The Pelican Island (1827)