Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Sarah Adams (22 February 1805 – 14 August 1848) was an English poet and hymn writer. She was the younger daughter of Benjamin Flower, editor and owner of The Cambridge Intelligencer, and married William Brydges Adams, an inventor and civil engineer.

Quotes

• He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,-
  Alike they’re needful to the flower;
  And joys and tears alike are sent
  To give the soul fit nourishment.
  As comes to me or cloud or sun,
  Father! thy will, not mine, be done.
  • "He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower", reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 282; and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Once have a priest for enemy, good bye
  To peace.
  • Vivia Perpetua, Act iii. Sc. ii.

Nearer, my God, to Thee (c. 1841)

• Though like the wanderer,
  The sun gone down,
  Darkness be over me,
  My rest a stone;
  Yet in my dreams I'd be
  Nearer, my God, to Thee.

• Nearer, my God, to Thee!
  Nearer to Thee!
  E’en though it be a cross
  That raiseth me,
  Still all my song shall be,
  Nearer, my God, to Thee!
  Nearer to Thee!