Index nach erster Zeile – Index of first lines

Note: incomplete, will be updated over time

A

A blooming paradise of joy… (384 Agatite)
A fierce unrest seethes at the core… (72 Salvation)
Ah! whither should I go… (115 Complaint)
Alas! and did my Savior bleed… (344t Suffering Savior)
A little longer here below… (137 To That Land)
Almighty love, inspire my heart… (86 Song of Moses)
Along the banks where Babel’s current flows… (167 Bondage)
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound… (108 Amazing Grace)
And am I born to die?… (22b Psalm 30)
And now, my soul, another year… (370 Cowling)
Are there anybody here like Mary a-weeping… (373 Weeping Mary)
Arise my soul, arise… (364t Confidence)
Arise, my tender thoughts, arise… (21 Tender Thought)
As on the cross the Savior hung… (26 The Dying Penitent)
At anchor laid, remote from home… (28b Peaceful Shore)
At Jacob’s well a stranger sought… (173 Jacob’s Well)
A virgin unspotted the prophet foretold… (388 Judea)
Awake, arise, behold thou hast… (224 Preparation)
Awak’d by Sinai’s awful sound… (82 The Indian Philosopher)
Awake, my heart; arise, my tongue… (9t Bray)
Awake, my soul, to meet the day… (195 Hudson Valley)
Awake, our souls, and bless his name… (92 Staunton)
Awake, our souls, away our fears…(324 Scotland)

B

Begin, my soul, the lofty strain… (43t Barby)
Begin, my soul, th’exalted lay… (95 Boundless Love)
Before the flying clouds… (371 Landaff)
Begone, unbelief, my Savior is near… (339 Begone Unbelief)
Behold th’afflicted man… (22t The Afflicted Man)
Behold the lofty sky… (154 Venus)
Behold the Rose of Sharon here… (218b Roslin Castle)
Behold the Savior of mankind… (6t Asbury)
Behold, the Savior of mankind… (453 Crucifixion)
Behold the splendor, hear the shout… (214 Northborough)
Behold! with awful pomp… (76t Doomsday)
Blessed are the sons of God… (40 Road’s Town)
Blest are the men of peace… (43b Botetourt)
Blest are the souls that hear and know… (107 Exalted Hope)
Break off your fears, ye saints, and tell… (65t Salem)
Brethren, with pleasure let us part… (309 Overton)
Bright scenes of glory strike my sense… (318 Soldiers Return)
Buonaparte is afar… (306 Buonaparte)
Burst, ye em’rald gates, and bring… (73 Exultation)

C

Children of the heav’nly King… (346t Warren)
Christians, awake! Salute this happy morn… (54 Walworth)
Cold mountains and the midnight air… (171 Catalina)
Come all, who love my Lord and master… (218t Redeeming Grace)
Come all ye happy race… (303 Cumberland)
Come all ye saints and sinners near… (206 Experience)
Come all ye tender hearted Christians… (270 Tender-Hearted Christian)
Come away to the skies… (11 Exultation)
Come, Christians, be valiant, our Jesus is near us… (190 Harewell)
Come, dear friend, and don’t neglect it… (55 Ball Hill)
Come, fathers and mothers… (109 Zion’s Walls)
Come friends and relations, let’s join heart and hand… (91 Redemption)
Come, Holy Spirit, come… (78 Stafford)
Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly dove… (28t Heavenly Dove)
Come on, my fellow pilgrims, come… (74 Come On, My Fellow-Pilgrims)
Come on my partners in distress… (83b Heavenly Spark)
Come on, my partners in distress… (143 Consolation New)
Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell… (20 Heavenly Union)
Come sinners, I beg you, break free from your hell… (358 Dance In the Sky)
Come, sinners, to the gospel feast… (83t Gospel Feast)
Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing… (140b Ten Thousand Charms)
Come to Calv’ry’s holy mountain… (364b Stony Island)
Constrain’d by love, we come… (363 Constrained By Love)

D

Dark and thorny is the desert… (226 Thorny Desert)
Death is to us a sweet repose… (58 Saint’s Repose)
Death, like an overflowing stream… (119t Lamentation)
Death, like an overflowing stream… (210 Amanda)
Death shall not destroy my comfort… (76b Mount Watson)
Death! What a solemn word to all… (12t Liberty Hall)
Death, with his warrant in his hand… (202 Morpheus)
Deep in a cold, a joyless cell… (194 Despair)
Deep in a cold and joyless cell… (356b Braintree)
Deep in our hearts let us record… (199 Carlisle)
Drooping souls, no longer grieve… (150 Templeton)

E

Eternal Sun of righteousness… (142 Douglasville)

F

Farewell, dear brethren of the Lord… (53 Lisbon)
Farewell, honor’s empty pride… (38 Rome)
Farewell, my friends, I must be gone… (378t Sweet Heaven)
Far from mortal cares retreating… (118 Lochleven)
Father, who in the olive shade… (313 Olive Shade)
Firm and unmoved are they… (314t Texas)
Firm was my health, my day was bright… (407 Woburn)
Fly me riches, fly me cares… (336 Devotion)
Friendship to ev’ry willing mind… (221 Friendship)
From all that dwell below the skies… (412 America)
From regions of love, lo! an angel descended… (239 Voice to the Shepherds)
From whence doth this union arise… (89t Stephens)

G

Give ear to me ye sons of men… (158t Farewell Hymn)
Glory to God on high… (176 Worthy the Lamb)
God, from his cloudy cistern, pours… (140t Jehalah)
God is our refuge in distress… (67 Greenfield)
God will arise in all His might… (242 Boulder)
Good morning, brother pilgrim… (319 Salutation)
Great High Priest, we see thee stooping… (334 Gethsemane)

H

Hail! scenes of felicity, transport and joy… (63 Coldwater)
Hail, sov’reign love, which first began… (45 Hiding Place)
Hail the blest morn when the great mediator… (81 The Shepherd’s Star)
Hail the blest morn, see the great Mediator… (132 Star in the East)
Hail ye sighing sons of sorrow… (340t Princeton)
Happy the city where their sons… (19 Woodbury)
Happy the man whose hopes rely… (300b Livonia)
Hark! don’t you hear the turtle dove… (196 The Turtle Dove)
Hark! from the tomb a doleful sound… (200 Attention)
Hark from the tombs a doleful sound… (165 A Doleful Sound)
Hark! from the tombs, a doleful sound… (168 New Durham)
Hark! Hark! what news the angels bring… (111 Hark Hark)
Hark, hark what news the angels bring… (386 Georgia)
Hark, how thy saints unite their cries… (130 Absent Love)
Hark, my soul! It is the Lord… (52 David’s Victory)
Hark, ye mortals, hear the trumpet… (389 Angel’s Hymn)
Hear me O Lord, nor hide thy face… (227 Berne)
Hear the royal proclamation… (152 The Royal Proclamation)
He comes, he comes, the judge severe… (401 Hallelujah)
Hence from my soul sad thoughts be gone… (292 A Joyful Noise)
He saved me from the dreadful deep… (151 Thorn)
His voice as the sound of a dulcimer sweet… (146 Samanthra)
Hosanna, with a cheerful sound… (69 Alstead)
How long, dear Savior, O, how long… (302 Paradise)
How lost was my condition… (181 The Good Physician)
How oft in life I count the cost… (136 Perfect Love)
How pleasant ’tis to see… (213 Machias)
How pleas’d and blest was I… (127 Pembroke)
How splendid shines the morning star… (220 Morning Star)
How sweet to reflect on the joys that await me… (116 Eden of Love)

I

I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow… (321t Poor Pilgrim)
I cannot bear thine absence Lord… (13t Bourbon)
I’d rather live a beggar … (229 The Beggar)
If ever I loved, sure I love thee, my Lord… (394 Christian’s Triumph)
I have a loving old father at home… (205 Marion)
I have some friends before me gone… (422 We’ll Go On)
I hear the voice of woe… (64 Foster)
I know that my Redeemer lives… (404t Paradise)
I’ll praise my maker with my breath… (390 Ohio)
I love thee, my Savior, I love thee, my Lord… (70t Imandra)
I love the holy Son of God… (65b I Love the Holy Son of God)
I love to live rejoicing… (133 Shouting Pilgrim)
I’m happy, I’m happy, O! wondrous account… (338 Meek)
I’m tired of visits, modes, and forms… (15 Converse)
In all my vast concerns with thee… (68 Ward)
In Bethlehem city, in Judah it was… (387 Christmas Hymn)
In chariots of light from the regions of day… (356t Liberty Tree)
In ev’ry dark distressful hour… (123 Intercession)
In evil long I took delight… (60b In Evil Long)
Infinite grace! Almighty charms… (160 Admiration)
In the bright season of thy youth… (187 Bright Season)
In the deserts let me labor… (14 Missionary’s Farewell)
In the full choir a broken string… (126 Shoreham)
In vain the wealthy mortals toil… (228 Milinda)
I once was a seaman stout and bold… (307 Jolly Soldier)
I send the joys of earth away… (198 Newport)
I sing a song which doth belong … (3b North Carolina)
Is not thy name melodious still… (24b Happiness)
Is this the kind return… (84 Lamberton)
I walked abroad one morning fair… (120t I Walked Abroad)
I would not live alway; I ask not to stay… (96t Summer)

J

Jesus drinks the bitter cup… (344b Springfield)
Jesus, full of all compassion… (36 Our Journey Home)
Jesus, I love thy charming name… (217 Juniata)
Jesus our God ascends on high… (328 Joyful Sound)
Jesus, the vision of thy face… (382 Grafton)
Join, join in tuneful strains… (398 Election Hymn)

L

Let him to whom we now belong… (164 Plainfield)
Let me go to my home in the far distant west… (105 Petition)
Let music roll in mournful strains… (396 Sylvia)
Let Zion and her sons rejoice… (13b Bethel)
Lift up your hearts, Immanuel’s friends… (326b The Good Old Way)
Lift your heads, ye friends of Jesus… (120b Kershaw)
Like sheep we went astray… (99 Hartford)
Lord, I am come! thy promise is my plea… (178 Effort)
Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear… (316b Fluvanna)
Lord, shall the wicked still deride… (166 Voorheesville)
Lord, shall we part with gold for dross… (9b Isle of Wight)
Lord, ’tis a pleasant thing to stand… (348b Birmingham)
Lord, we come before thee now… (129b Freta)
Lord, what is man, poor feeble man… (1t Dublin)
Lord, when thou didst ascend on high… (184 Sinai)

M

Madness by nature reigns within… (101 Madness)
Man has a soul of vast desires… (94 Rickmansworth)
May God his richest blessings give… (114 Youthful Blessings)
Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints… (100 John Adkins’ Farewell)
Mixtures of joy and sorrow… (90 Wedlock)
Must Jesus bear the cross alone… (128 Cross for You and Me)
My beloved! haste away… (191 Richmond)
My brethren all, on you I call… (163 My Brethren All)
My friends, I bid you all farewell… (75 Farewell)
My God, accept my early vows… (7b Winchester)
My God, permit my tongue… (155 Castine)
My God, thy boundless love we praise… (2 Rhode Island)
My life’s a shade, my days… (222 A Funeral Hymn)
My refuge is the God of love… (392 Solitude New)
My soul is happy while I sing… (147 River of Jordan)
My soul lies cleaving to the dust… (378b Pleasant Valley)

N

Naked as from the earth we came… (29 Hatfield)
No sleep nor slumber to his eyes… (149 Reflection)
Not a drum beat was heard, not a funeral note… (44 The Burial)
Now from the garden to the cross… (169 Okefenokee)
Now in a song of grateful praise… (393 He Hath Done All Things Well)
Now let our lips with holy fear… (216 Southborough)
Now let our mournful songs record… (354b Montague)
Now the Savior stands apleading… (241t Sinner, Can You Hate The Savior?)

O

Oh come, come with me, to the old churchyard… (170 Amboy)
O come, and to his temple haste… (197 Sixty Five South)
Oh, could our thoughts and wishes fly… (186 Worlds Beyond the Sky)
O for a closer walk with God… (3t Walk With God)
Oft I am told the muse will prove… (400 Moreen)
O God, our help in ages past… (212 Augusta)
O God, why hast thou thus… (71 Hickman)
O happy day, that fix’d my choice… (4b Gravity)
O hearken, sinners, we have cause… (77 Collins)
O, how happy are they… (333 True Happiness)
Oh, if my Lord would come and meet… (96b Leaning on Jesus’ Breast)
O Jesus, my Savior, I know thou art mine… (429b Symyadda)
O land of rest, for thee I sigh… (411 Missouri)
O Lord, give me a heart that’s pure… (98 Markham)
O Lord, our languid souls inspire… (397 Namur)
O may we all in Christ be one… (172 St James)
Once I thought my mountain strong… (157 Nuremburg)
Once more, my soul, the rising day… (24t Consolation)
One night, as I lay musing… (8 Sweet Messenger)
On lines of life our bodies hang… (350 Gardiner)
O! now Amanda’s dead and gone… (211 Despair)
O sleep not, my babe, for the morn of tomorrow… (156 Female Convict)
O thou, in whose presence my soul takes delight… (18b A Song of Texas)
O thou that hear’st when sinners cry… (7t Supplication)
Our cheerful voices let us raise… (179 Separation)
Our Father, who in heaven art… (287 Kittery)
Our life contains a thousand springs… (225 Surprise)
Our loving one has gone to rest… (124 Gone to Rest)
O were I like a feather’d dove… (193 Solitude in the Grove)
O when shall I see Jesus… (46 Conquering Soldier)
O, Zion, afflicted with wave upon wave… (93 Mosley)

P

Poor child of sorrow, fashioned from the clay… (87 Babylonian Captivity)
Prepare me, gracious God… (351 Hallowell)

R

Rejoice my friends, the Lord is King… (4t Knoxville)
Remember, Lord, our mortal state… (340b Whitestown)
Remember, sinful youth, you must die… (34 Solemn Thought)
Return, O God of love, return… (361 Georgia)
Rise, O Lord our God… (321b Vienna)

S

Salvation, through our dying God… (56 Maryville)
Save me, O God! the swelling floods… (32 Sutton New)
Save us, O Lord, aloud we pray… (406 Complaint)
Say, mighty Love, and teach my song… (30 Few Happy Matches)
Say, mighty love, and teach my song… (290 Harmony)
See the leaves around ye falling… (380 Autumn)
Shall men pretend to pleasure… (316t Pacolet)
Shall we go on to sin… (208 Interrogation)
Shepherds arise! Be not afraid… (408b Shepherds Arise)
Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes… (408t Bennington)
Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive… (39 Williamstown)
Sin, and the pow’rs of hell… (248t Singing Pilgrim)
Since man by sin has lost his God… (10 Something New)
Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise… (374b Epiphonema)
Sinners, hear the Savior’s call… (33 Florilla)
Sleep, downy sleep, come close my eyes… (89b Worship)
Soldiers of the cross, arise… (31 Bruce’s Address)
Sometimes a light surprises… (174 Faithful Soldier)
Stay, thou insulted Spirit! Stay… (5b Breaker)
Stay, thou insulted spirit, stay… (399 The Humble Penitent)
Stoop down my thoughts that used to rise… (304 Mortality)
Sweet angels beckon me away… (145 Etheridge)
Sweet is the day of sacred rest… (188 Lewisburgh)
Sweet is the mem’ry of thy grace… (70b Marcus Hook)
Sweet is the work, my God, my King… (1b Rockbridge)
Sweet rivers of redeeming love… (404b Redeeming Love)

T

Teach my weak heart, O gracious Lord… (104b Power)
Tell me, Savior, from above… (348t Sovereign Grace)
That awful day will surely come… (450 Lover’s Lamentation)
That glorious day is drawing nigh… (18t Canaan)
The day of the Lord, the day of salvation… (330t Day of Judgment)
Thee we adore, eternal name… (369 Worthington)
The fields are all white, the harvest is near… (161 Harvest Hymn)
The finest flow’r that e’er was known… (41 The Flower)
The glorious time is rolling on… (112 Better Days Coming)
The God of glory sends his summons forth… (110 Justice)
The God of glory sends his summons forth… (254 Pennsylvania)
The God of glory sends his summons forth… (352 Cumberland)
The King of saints, how fair his face… (342 Mount Olive)
The lands that long in darkness lay… (5t Angel’s Hymn)
The Lord hath eyes to give the blind… (47 Psalm 46)
The Lord is great, ye host of heav’n adore him… (17 The Lord is Great)
The Lord my shepherd is… (310 Wigan)
The Lord, the Judge, before his throne… (330b The Judgment)
The man that views his guilt and sin… (51 Sussex)
The people called Christians… (37 The Spiritual Sailor)
The Prince of salvation is coming, prepare… (42 Blooming Wilderness)
The promise of my Father’s love… (410 Trumble)
There is a holy city… (102 Holy City)
There is a land of pleasure… (35 The Rose Tree)
There is a land of pure delight… (300t Harmony Grove)
The son of man they did betray… (360 Mount Calvary)
The time is swiftly rolling on… (403 Hicks’ Farewell)
The tree of life my soul hath seen… (158b The Appletree)
The voice of my beloved sounds… (88 Warwick)
The wond’ring world inquires to know… (323 Abingdon)
The year rolls round and steals away… (374t Martyrs)
They who long in sin have lain… (16 The Martial Trumpet)
This blessing is mine, through favor divine… (113 Sweet Harmony)
This is a field, this world below… (85 The Harvest Field)
This life’s a dream, an empty show… (125 Islington)
This life’s a dream, an empty show… (377 Glasgow)
This spacious earth is all the Lords… (183 Paris)
Tho’ dark be my way… (305 Tho’ Dark Be My Way)
Thou great and sov’reign Lord of all… (362 Westminster)
Thro’ all the world below… (48 Captain Kidd)
Through ev’ry age eternal God… (121 Hermon)
Thus saith the mercy of the Lord… (335 Rockingham)
Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song… (60t Versailles)
Thy way, O God, is in the sea… (12b Stroudwater)
Thy words the raging winds control… (177 Coromandel)
Thy wrath lies heavy on my soul… (376 Friendship)
Time is winging us away… (104t Time Is Winging Us Away)
Time speeds away, away, away… (366 Harpers Lament)
‘Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more… (66 Night of the Grave)
‘Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more… (312 Hermit)
‘Tis winter now; the fallen snow… (61 Wabash)
To God we’ll cry and hell defy… (131 Zion’s Call)
To our Almighty Maker, God… (346b Sheffield)
To shepherds, as they watch’d by night… (50 Frewsburgh)
To thee, in youth’s bright morning… (201 Diana)
‘Twas on that dark, that doleful night… (27 Brookfield)
‘Twas on that dark, that doleful night… (354t Solemnity)

W

Wake up, wake up, ye drowsy sleeper… (204 Wake Up)
Wake, sisters, wake! the daystar shines… (367 Hymn of the Dunkers)
Was it for crimes that I had done… (134t Pleasant Forest)
We are expos’d all day to die… (192 Bunker Hill)
We are passing away from this beautiful earth… (25 Damascus)
We celebrate the praise today… (139 Hull)
Welcome, sweet day of rest… (6b Lisbon)
Well might the sun in darkness hide… (49 Marietta)
We’re trav’ling home to heav’n above… (368 Will You Go)
We sing the glories of thy love… (148 Malotten)
We’ve no abiding city here… (326t We’ve No Abiding City Here)
What poor, despised company… (381 Abenaki)
What sorrowful sounds do I hear… (308 Pastoral Elegy)
What’s this that steals upon my frame… (162 All Is Well)
When all thy mercies, O my God… (385 Soda)
When brighter suns and milder skies… (311 Greenpoint)
When God our leader shines in arms… (329 Majesty)
When God reveal’d his gracious name… (223 America)
When, gracious Lord, when shall it be… (129t Hudson)
When in death I shall calm recline… (119b Legacy)
When marshal’d on the nightly plain… (332 Bonnie Doon)
When on my beloved I gaze… (182 Swain)
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way… (80 Pomerania)
When rising from the bed of death… (402 Buzzard’s Glory)
When shall thy lovely face be seen… (282 Pennsylvania)
When shall we meet again… (207 Friendship)
When snows descend and robe the fields… (138 Spring)
When some kind shepherd from his fold… (144 Mountain)
When strangers stand and hear me tell… (117 Buckfield)
When we our wearied limbs to rest… (134b Lamentation)
When winter is over and spring is begun… (175 Changing Seasons)
While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night… (180 Glory Shone Around)
While sorrows encompass me round… (320 Wellington)
With all my pow’rs of heart and tongue… (395 Camden)
With inward pain my heart strings sound… (23 Wesley)
Why do we mourn departing friends… (57 New Orleans)
Why do we mourn departing friends… (209 Consolation)
Why should vain mortals tremble… (106 Bunker Hill)
Why should we be affrighted… (153 Carmel)
Wrapt in the silence of the night… (62 Rapturous Scene)

Y

Ye boundless realms of joy… (372 Candler Park)
Ye children of Jesus, who’re bound for the kingdom… (314b Transport)
Ye humble souls, complain no more… (122 Russell)
Ye nations all, on you I call… (103 Babe of Bethlehem)
Ye sons of earth prepare the plow… (79 Heck)
Ye tribes of Adam, join… (423 Brier Island)
Ye weary heavy laden souls… (203 Forster)
Ye weary heavy laden souls… (322 Parrish)
Young people, all, now at the ball… (359 Christian’s Delight)