- Full Text
- I can be safe and free from care
On any shore if thou be there
- Listed on Page Number
- 323
- Sampler Worked By
- Jane Hamil
- Date of Sampler
- 1802
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 167
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Guyon, Jeanne-Marie Bouvieres de la Motte. Poems Translated from the French of Madame De La Mothe Guion by the Late William Cowper, Esq. Author of the Task, Newport Pagnell: J. Wakefield, 1801, p. 33.
- Notes
- Although this verse entry gives its date as “before 1815,” the sampler associated with it is dated 1802.
Jean-Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon’s (13 April 1648 - 9 June 1717) poems were translated into many languages in her lifetime, but Cowper’s translation of her poetry was the first to include this poem.
The original reads,
“I can be calm and free from care,
On any shore, since God is there.”