Hymn
Keep Me Calm
- Writer
- Horatius Bonar
- Theme
- Peace
Calm me, my God, and keep me calm,
Reclining on Thy breast;
Soothe me with holy hymn and psalm,
And bid my spirit rest.
Yes, keep me calm, tho' loud and rude
The sounds my ear that greet,
Calm in the closet's solitude,
Calm in the bustling street;
Calm in the hour of buoyant health,
Calm in the hour of pain,
Calm in my poverty or wealth,
Calm in my loss or gain;
Calm in the sufferance of wrong,
Like Him who bore my shame;
Calm 'mid the threat'ning, taunting throng,
Who hate Thy holy name;
Calm as the ray of sun or star,
Which storms assail in vain,
Moving unruffled thro' earth's war,
Th' eternal calm to gain.
Keep Me Calm — Text from Christ in Song, 1908. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/keep-me-calm
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote Keep Me Calm?
The words of Keep Me Calm were written by Horatius Bonar; the version here was published in 1908. The library holds 19 more hymns by Horatius Bonar, including Go, labor on: spend and be spent and O Love of God, How Strong and True.
Is Keep Me Calm public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from Christ in Song, published in 1908. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the meter of Keep Me Calm?
Keep Me Calm is in Common Meter (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same meter can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, My God, Accept My Heart This Day, The Lord's My Shepherd and Christ's Commission.