“Thank God, I Glory in Thy Love!” is in the collected volume Poems (Carey and Hart, 1850) by Frances Sargent Osgood. Poet Edgar Allan Poe, with whom Osgood had a close relationship, wrote the following in his essay, “The Literati of New York City”: “I cannot speak of the poems of Mrs. Osgood without a strong propensity to ring the changes upon the indefinite word ‘grace’ and its derivatives. It seems, indeed, the one key-phrase unlocking the cryptograph of her power—of the effect she produces. And yet the effect is scarcely more a secret than the key. Grace, perhaps, may be most satisfactorily defined as a term applied, in despair, to that class of the impressions of beauty which admit neither of analysis nor of comprehension. It is in this irresoluble charm—in grace—that Mrs. Osgood excels any poetess of her country—or, indeed, of any country under the sun. Nor is she more graceful herself than appreciative of the graceful, under whatever guise it is presented to her consideration. The sentiment, the perception, and the keenest enjoyment of grace, render themselves manifest in innumerable instances, as well throughout her prose as her poetry.”