James Montgomery.
1771–1854. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Original Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Devotion (1853). I. “Songs of praise” |
II. “Angels, from the realms of glory” |
III. “Hail to the Lord’s anointed!” |
IV. “Go to dark Gethsemane” |
V. At Home in Heaven (“For ever with”) |
Miscellaneous Poems. I. Friends (“Friend after friend departs”) |
II. The Common Lot (“Once, in the flight of ages”) |
III. The Christian Soldier (“Servant of God! well done”) |
IV. Prayer (“Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire”) |
V. “A poor wayfaring man” |
VI. The Field of the World (“Sow in the morn”) |
The Grave (1804) (“There is a calm”) |
The West Indies (1809). I. Home (“There is a land”) |
II. The Slaver (“Lives there a savage”) |
Richard Mant.
1776–1848. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Sundial of Armoy (1847) (Selected Lyrics). I. The Paradise of Heaven |
II. Heavenly Changes in the Departed |
III. Commemoration of One Departed |
IV. Faith Confirmed by Sense |
The British Months (1835) (November). Christian Consolation on the Death of Friends |
Te Deum Laudamus |
Sir Robert Grant.
1779–1838. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Sacred Poems. I. Psalm CIV. (“O worship the King”) |
II. Litany (“Saviour, when in dust to Thee”) |
III. “When gathering clouds around I view” |
IV. “Whom have I in heaven but Thee?” |
Reginald Heber.
1783–1826. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns. I. “The Son of God goes forth to war” |
II. “Brightest and best of the sons of the morning” |
III. “By cool Siloam’s shady rill” |
IV. “The Lord of Might, from Sinai’s brow” |
V. “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty” |
VI. “Who yonder on the desert heath” |
VII. “The sound of war! In earth and air” |
VIII. “Thou art gone to the Grave” |
IX. “From Greenland’s icy mountains” |
Poems. I. An Evening Walk in Bengal |
II. The Passage of the Red Sea |
Bernard Barton.
1784–1849. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems. I. “Which Things are a Shadow” |
II. A Dream |
III. To the Owl |
IV. A Colloquy with Myself |
Henry Kirk White.
1785–1806. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
On Disappointment |
Charlotte Elliott.
1789–1871. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems (1836). I. “Just as I am” |
II. Watch and Pray |
III. Thy Will Be Done |
IV. The Hour of Prayer |
V. Leaning on Her Beloved |
VI. Let Me Be with Thee |
Josiah Conder.
1789–1855. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Hymns. I. Psalm LXXXIV. (“How honoured, how dear”) |
II. “Beyond, beyond that boundless sea” |
III. “How shall I follow Him I serve?” |
IV. “The Lord is King” |
V. “Day by day the manna fell” |
VI. “O show me not my Saviour dying” |
VII. “Oh, give thanks to Him who made” |
Sonnets. I. Summer Is Come. 1. “Summer is come” |
2. “Now day survives the sun” |
II. Autumn. 1. “A glorious day!” |
2. “Now that the flowers have faded” |
Henry Hart Milman.
1791–1868. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns. I. “Ride on, ride on in majesty” |
II. “Bound upon th’ accursèd tree” |
III. “When our heads are bow’d with woe” |
IV. “O help us, Lord, each hour of need” |
V. “Lord! Thou didst arise and say” |
The Martyr of Antioch (1821). Funeral Hymn (“Brother! thou art gone”) |
Belshazzar (1822). Hymn of the Captive Jews |
John Keble.
1792–1866. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Christian Year (1827). I. Morning (“Hues of the rich”) |
II. Evening (“’Tis gone, that bright”) |
III. “What went ye out to see?” |
IV. “See Lucifer like lightning fall” |
V. “There is a book, who runs may read” |
VI. “O for a sculptor’s hand” |
VII. “Red o’er the forest peers the setting sun” |
VIII. The Conversion of St. Paul |
IX. “Bless’d are the pure in heart” |
X. “Where is it mothers learn their love?” |
Sir John Bowring.
1792–1872. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns and Poems. I. “In the Cross of Christ I glory” |
II. “God is love” |
III. Where? When? How? |
IV. Matter and Mind |
V. The Reign of Law |
VI. Unchanging Changes |
VII. Resurrection |
VIII. Confidence |
Henry Francis Lyte.
1793–1847. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Psalms and Hymns. I. “Sing to the Lord our might” |
II. “My spirit on Thy care” |
III. “God of mercy, God of grace” |
IV. “Pleasant are Thy courts above” |
V. “Praise, my soul, the King of heaven” |
VI. “Long did I toil” |
VII. “Jesus, I my cross have taken” |
VIII. “Abide with me” |
Robert Pollok.
1798–1827. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Course of Time (1827). I. The Poet’s Autobiography (From Book iii) |
II. Lord Byron (From Book iv) |
III. The Lovers (From Book v) |
IV. The Resurrection of the Body (From Books vii & viii) |
V. Death (From Book vii) |
John Henry Newman.
1801–1890. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Verses on Various Occasions. I. Nature and Art |
II. A Thanksgiving |
III. Moses |
IV. Humiliation |
V. David and Jonathan |
VI. The Pillar of the Cloud (“Lead, Kindly Light”) |
The Dream of Gerontius (1865) (Selected passages). I. The Soul of Gerontius |
II. Fifth Choir of Angelicals (“Praise to the Holiest”) |
Caroline Clive.
1801–1873. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander B. Grosart |
IX Poems (1840). I. At Llyncwmstraethy |
II. The Grave |
III. Former Home |
IV. Heart’s-Ease |
Paul Ferroll (1853). An Incident (From Chapter VII) |
Sarah Flower Adams.
1805–1848. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns. I. “Nearer, my God, to Thee” |
II. “O! I would sing a song of praise” |
III. “O hallowed memories of the past” |
IV. “He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower” |
V. “The mourners came at break of day” |
VI. “O pleasant life!” |
VII. “Part in peace! Is day before us?” |
Richard Chenevix Trench.
1807–1886. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems. I. “What, many times I musing asked” |
II. “This did not once so trouble me” |
Christopher Wordsworth.
1807–1885. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Holy Year (1862). I. “Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost” |
II. “O Lord of heaven” |
III. “Hark the sound of holy voices” |
IV. “O Day of rest and gladness” |
Henry Alford.
1810–1871. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns. I. “In token that thou shalt not fear” |
II. “Come, ye thankful people, come” |
III. “Ten thousand times ten thousand” |
IV. “Forward! be our watchword” |
Be Just and Fear Not |
Horatius Bonar.
1808–1889. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Mackensie Bell |
Hymns of Faith and Hope. I. How Long? (“My God, it is not fretfulness”) |
II. “I heard the voice of Jesus say” |
III. “When the weary, seeking rest” |
IV. “A few more years shall roll” |
John Stuart Blackie.
1809–1895. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Benedicite (“Angels holy”) |
Henry Ellison.
1811–1880. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander B. Grosart |
Mad Moments: Or First Verse Attempts by a Born Natural (1833). I. Season-Changes: Their Signs and Moral |
II. Nature |
III. To Psyche (Ode I) |
III. To Psyche (Ode II) |
Selected Sonnets. I. The Day’s Eye |
II. The Alp Rose |
III. Sonnet to the Gentian |
IV. A Sunset Thought |
V. The Stars |
VI. London after Midnight |
VII. On Robert Burns’ Humanity |
VIII. To Wordsworth |
The Poetry of Real Life (1844). I. The Upright Man |
Frederick William Faber.
1814–1863. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns. I. The Pain of Love (“Jesus! why dost Thou”) |
II. Sunday (“There is a Sabbath”) |
III. Jesus Crucified (“O come and mourn”) |
IV. The Agony (“O soul of Jesus”) |
V. The Sorrowful World |
VI. The Pilgrims of the Night |
Thomas Toke Lynch.
1818–1871. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Memorials of Theophilus Trinal, Student (1850). I. Reasoning with God |
II. Modulations |
III. The Five Flowers |
IV. The Heaven |
V. Hymn for Sunday (“The Lord is rich”) |
VI. Rest |
VII. Proofs |
The Rivulet (1871). I. “Lift up your heads” |
II. “Where is thy God?” |
III. “Gracious Spirit” |
IV. “Dismiss me not” |
V. “Oft when of God we ask” |
VI. “O, break my heart” |
VII. “The world was dark” |
VIII. “O Lord, Thou art not fickle” |
John Mason Neale.
1818–1866. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Original Hymns. I. Evening (“God hath two families of love”) |
II. The Communion of Saints |
III. Laying the First Stone of a Church |
IV. At a Funeral |
V. The Ministration of Angels |
Hymns of the Eastern Church (1862). I. “Fierce was the wild billow” |
II. “The day is past and over” |
III. “Christian! dost thou see them?” |
IV. “’Tis the Day of Resurrection” |
V. “Art thou weary, art thou languid?” |
VI. “O happy band of pilgrims” |
Mediæval Hymns and Sequences. Hora Novissima. I. “The world is very evil” |
II. “O happy, holy portion” |
III. “Brief life is here our portion” |
IV. “For thee, O dear dear Country!” |
Thomas Hornblower Gill.
1819–1906. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
The Golden Chain of Praise (1869). I. Sweet Subjection |
II. The Divine Renewer |
III. We are Seeking the Lord |
IV. The Glory of the Latter Days |
V. New Year Hymn |
Charles Dent Bell.
1819–1898. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems Old and New. I. God’s Furnace |
II. Before |
III. After |
IV. Dying Words |
Rondeaux. I. “Works Death such change?” |
II. “I would not shrink” |
III. “He does not come” |
IV. “Before he passed” |
Anna Lætitia Waring.
1820–1910. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Hymns and Meditations. I. “Father, I know that all my life” |
II. “My heart is resting, O my God” |
III. “Go not far from me, O my strength” |
IV. The Cry of the Lost Answered |
Edward Hayes Plumptre.
1821–1891. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Lazarus and Other Poems (1865). Three Cups of Cold Water |
Master and Scholar (1866). Gilboa |
Things New and Old (1884). Chalfont St. Giles |
Hymns. I. “Rejoice, ye pure in heart” |
II. “Thine arm, O Lord” |
James Drummond Burns.
1823–1864. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander B. Grosart |
Poems. I. The Vesper Hour |
II. The Child Samuel |
III. Humility |
IV. The Footsteps of the Flock |
V. The Bird and the Bee |
Sonnets. I. Presentiment |
II. Reason and Faith |
III. My First Birthday in a Foreign Land |
IV. Memory of a Dear Friend |
V. Imagination |
VI. By the Sea-Side |
VII. Evening Picture |
VIII. Great Britain |
Cecil Frances Alexander.
1823–1895. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns for Children. I. “Every morning the red sun” |
II. “There is a green hill far away” |
Hymns and Sacred Poems. I. Earth and Heaven |
II. Touched with a Feeling of Our Infirmities |
III. The Burial of Moses |
IV. Ruth |
William Walsham How.
1823–1897. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems. I. Stars and Graves |
II. Converse |
III. “Pasce Verbo, Pasce Vita” |
IV. A Starlit Night by the Sea-Shore |
Hymns. I. Jesus at the Door |
II. “O God, enshrined” |
III. Offertory |
IV. The New Jerusalem |
William Alexander.
1824–1911. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems. I. A Sea Gleam |
II. Very Far Away |
III. Christ on the Shore |
IV. A Fine Day in Holy Week |
V. The Birthday Crown |
Sonnets. St. John at Patmos. I. “What be his dreams” |
II. “Not fancies of the soft Ionian clime” |
III. “But ere heaven’s cressets burn” |
William Josiah Irons.
1812–1883. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Psalms and Hymns for the Church (1883). I. “Evening has come” |
II. “Hail, holy rest!” |
III. “Lo, signs in sun, and moon, and stars” |
IV. “Clouds around the mountains” |
V. “Mother mine, why hast thou borne me?” |
VI. “Is not this our King and Prophet?” |
VII. “O silent Night” |
VIII. “‘He loved his own unto the end’” |
IX. “Pause now, and think, O Christian soul!” |
X. “O All-surpassing Splendour!” |
Aubrey de Vere.
1814–1902. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems. I. Spring |
II. Spring Thoughts |
III. Sense, Faith, and Glory |
IV. Martha and Mary |
Coventry Patmore.
1823–1896. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Toys |
Francis Turner Palgrave.
1824–1897. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Amenophis and Other Poems (1892). I. At Ephesus |
II. An Incident at Mendrisio |
III. On the Love of Children |
IV. Hymn to Our Saviour |
V. Christus Consolator |
VI. The Garden of God |
VII. A Hymn of Repentance |
VIII. Death and the Fear of It |
IX. I am the Resurrection and the Life |
Walter Chalmers Smith.
1824–1908. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Hymns (1867). I. “Earth was waiting” |
II. “Lord, I would choose” |
Olrig Grange (1872) (Selected Lines). I. “But my Faith is not gone” |
II. “My sun sinks without clouds or fears” |
Raban; or, Life Splinters (1880). Work and Spirit |
North Country Folk (1883). A Cry from the Merse |
Thoughts and Fancies (1887). I. “One thing I of the Lord desire” |
II. “Be still” |
III. “O’er land and sea” |
A Heretic and Other Poems (1891). I. Creeds |
II. The Vision of God |
George MacDonald.
1824–1905. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Organ Songs. I. “I know what beauty is” |
II. Longing |
III. “I would I were a child” |
IV. Rest |
A Book of Sonnets. I. The Unseen Face |
II. The Sweeper of the Floor |
Violin Songs. I. Going to Sleep |
II. Bed Time |
A Book of Dreams. I. A piece of Gold |
II. “Dreaming I slept” |
Edward Henry Bickersteth.
1825–1906. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
From Year to Year (1883). I. “Come ye yourselves apart” |
II. “The Meadow Grass” |
III. “My work is done” |
IV. “‘Till He come’” |
V. “Peace, perfect peace” |
Henry Septimus Sutton.
1825–1901. | Critical and Biographical Essay by William Garrett Horder |
Rose’s Diary (1850). “The day with light its genial self engirds” |
“Put not on me, O Lord! this work divine” |
“What mean these slow returns of love?” |
“O Father! I have sinn’d against Thee” |
“Each day a page is of my being’s book” |
“Late on me, weeping, did this whisper fall” |
“How beautiful it is to be alive!” |
“Prayer is the world-plant’s blossom” |
“How beautiful our lives may be!” |
Poems. I. The Daisy |
II. “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him” |
III. For the Desolate |
IV. A Preacher’s Soliloquy and Sermon |
V. Sorrow |
VI. Love’s Freemasonry |
VII. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
VIII. Man |
John Ellerton.
1826–1893. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Original Hymns. I. “God of the living” |
II. “Throned upon the awful Tree” |
III. “The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended” |
IV. “Saviour, again to Thy dear name” |
Translated Hymns. I. “Sing Alleluia forth” |
II. “Welcome, happy morning!” (Easter) |
Richard Wilton.
1827–1903. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Selected Sonnets. I. An Incident |
II. The Sparrow |
III. The Tides |
IV. The Well-Head |
V. Flamborough Lighthouse |
VI. The Hawthorn and the Wild Rose |
Rondeaux. I. “Sweet, soft and low”; or The Willow Warbler |
II. “When I am gone” |
Ballades. I. My Grandchildren at Church |
II. The Summer of Saint Luke |
Lyrics. I. Auburn |
II. Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
Benedicite (Selected Rondels). I. “O all ye Works of God” |
II. “Ye Heavens, with your encircling blue” |
III. “Lightnings and Clouds” |
IV. “O let the Earth in fair array” |
V. “Ye Hills and Mountains” |
VI. “O all ye Green Things on the earth” |
VII. “O Wells and Springs” |
VIII. “Ye Seas and Floods” |
Joseph John Murphy.
1827–1894. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander B. Grosart |
Sonnets and Other Poems, Chiefly Religious (1890). I. A Thought of Stoicism |
II. First Sorrow |
III. The Potter and the Clay |
IV. Eternity |
Christina G. Rossetti.
1830–1894. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Time Flies. I. “Lord Babe, if Thou art He” |
II. “Laughing Life cries at the feast” |
III. “Where shall I find a white rose?” |
IV. “Weigh all my faults” |
V. “Piteous my rhyme is” |
VI. “Young girls wear flowers” |
VII. “Golden haired, lily white” |
VIII. “Innocent eyes not ours” |
IX. “Man’s life is but a working day” |
X. “Have I not striven?” |
XI. “Through burden and heat of the day” |
XII. “Sorrow hath a double voice” |
XIII. “Who is this that cometh up?” |
XIV. “The goal in sight” |
XV. “Bury Hope out of sight” |
XVI. “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh” |
XVII. “The tempest over and gone” |
XVIII. “Words cannot utter” |
Alexander B. Grosart.
1835–1899. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Songs of Day and Night. I. God Near and Far |
II. The Everlasting Arms Underneath |
III. He Leads Round |
IV. The Good Die Not |
V. God the Holy Spirit |
VI. The Cross |
VII. Angelic Ministry |
VIII. The Resurrection |
IX. If It Be Possible |
X. Indwelling—Dwelling in |
John Owen.
1836–1896. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander B. Grosart |
Verse Musings on Nature, Faith, and Freedom (1889).
I. Faith. I. On Defining God |
II. What is Religion? |
III. Where is Religion? |
IV. What is Faith? |
V. Life and Thought |
II. Freedom. I. Fate and Man |
II. The Devout Skeptic’s Dying Prayer |
III. To the Future World |
Frances Ridley Havergal.
1836–1879. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems. I. Consecration Hymn |
II. A Worker’s Prayer |
III. Now and Afterward |
IV. Adoration |
William Hall.
1838– . | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Via Crucis (1906). I. Renunciation (Selected Stanzas) |
II. Self-Communion (Selected Stanzas) |
III. A Bruised Reed |
IV. Who will show us any good |
V. Good-Night |
Samuel John Stone.
1839–1900. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Hymns. I. “The Church’s one Foundation” |
II. “Round the Sacred City gather” |
III. “Lord of our soul’s salvation” |
IV. “Weary of earth” |
V. “Their names are names of kings” |
Frederick William Orde Ward.
1843–1922. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Prisoner of Love (1904). I. Christ the Outcast |
II. The Cup |
III. The Resurrection of the Flowers |
IV. Summer’s Parable |
V. God and the Harvest |
VI. Our Open Cage |
VII. Losing and Saving |
VIII. Spring |
IX. Who goes Home? |
Selwyn Image.
1849–1930. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Poems and Carols (1894). I. A Meditation for Christmas |
II. Gabriel and Mary |
III. The Heavenly Host |
Anna Lætitia Barbauld.
1743–1825. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Praise to God, immortal praise” |
II. “Awake, my soul, lift up thine eyes” |
Thomas Kelly.
1769–1854. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “The head that once was crowned with thorns” |
II. “Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious” |
Harriet Auber.
1773–1862. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed” |
Joseph Blanco White.
1775–1839. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
To Night |
Philip Pusey.
1779–1855. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Lord of our life” |
Thomas Moore.
1779–1852. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Thou art, O God, the life and light” |
II. “Sound the loud timbrel” |
| Ann and Jane Taylor. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Ann Taylor (Gilbert).
1782–1866. | “Great God, and wilt Thou condescend” |
Jane Taylor.
1783–1824. | “When daily I kneel down to pray” |
William Johnson Fox.
1786–1864. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “A little child, in bulrush ark” |
II. “‘Make us a god,’ said man” |
III. “The sage his cup of hemlock quaffed” |
Andrew Reed.
1787–1862. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Spirit Divine, attend our prayers” |
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna.
1790–1849. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Mariner’s Midnight Hymn |
James Edmeston.
1791–1867. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us” |
II. “Saviour, breathe an evening blessing” |
Samuel Rickards.
1796–1865. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Christmas Day |
Thomas Binney.
1798–1874. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Eternal Light!” |
Herbert Knowles.
1798–1817. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Lines Written in the Churchyard of Richmond, Yorkshire |
Matthew Bridges.
1800–1894. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Crown Him with many crowns” |
Richard Massie.
1800–1887. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“O Lord, who by Thy presence” |
John Reynell Wreford.
1800–1881. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Lord, while for all mankind we pray” |
Harriet Martineau.
1802–1876. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Arise, my soul! and urge thy flight” |
II. “Beneath this starry arch” |
III. “All men are equal in their birth” |
Isaac Williams.
1802–1865. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “The child leans on its parent’s breast” |
II. At Midnight (“Away with sorrow’s sigh”) |
John Hampden Gurney.
1802–1862. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Lord of the harvest! Thee we hail” |
Henry James Buckoll.
1803–1871. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Come, my soul, thou must be waking” |
Samuel Greg.
1804–1877. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. Death (“Slowly, slowly, darkening”) |
II. The Transfiguration (“Stay, Master, stay”) |
James Martineau.
1805–1900. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Thy way is in the deep” (1840) |
II. The Inward Witness (“Where is your God?”) (1873) |
John F. Chandler.
1806–1876. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “’Tis for conquering kings to gain” |
II. “O Jesu, Lord of heavenly grace” |
George Rawson.
1807–1889. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. Trust (“My Father, it is good for me”) |
II. “Praise ye the Lord, immortal quire” |
Edward Arthur Dayman.
1807–1890. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Sleep, thy last sleep” |
Joseph Anstice.
1808–1836. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Come to a desert place apart” |
II. “Lord of the harvest! once again” |
John Samuel Bewley Monsell.
1811–1875. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Birds have their quiet nest” |
II. “God is Love, by Him upholden” |
Norman Macleod.
1812–1872. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Trust in God (“Courage, brother!”) |
Jane Borthwick.
1813–1897. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Come, labour on!” |
II. “Jesus, still lead on” |
Edward Caswell.
1814–1878. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. Swiftness of Time |
II. St. Bernard’s Hymn; or, the Loving Soul’s Jubilation.
I. “Jesus, the very thought of Thee” |
II. “O Jesu, King most wonderful!” |
III. An Evening Hymn |
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.
1815–1881. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. Hymn on the Transfiguration (“Master, it is good to be”) |
II. “He is gone—beyond the skies” |
Jane Montgomery Campbell.
1817–1878. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“We plough the fields, and scatter” |
| Brontë Sisters. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Emily Brontë.
1818–1848. | Last Lines, “No coward soul is mine” |
Anne Brontë.
1819–1849. | Last Lines, “I hope that with” |
Sir Henry Williams Baker.
1821–1877. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“The King of love my Shepherd is” |
Frances Power Cobbe.
1822–1904. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn” |
Godfrey Thring.
1823–1894. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. Afternoon Hymn (“The radiant morn”) |
II. The Great Calm (“Fierce raged the tempest”) |
III. “A Fortress sure is God our King” |
Henry Twells.
1823–1900. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“At even, ere the sun was set” |
Adelaide Anne Procter.
1825–1864. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“My God, I thank Thee, who hast made” |
William Whiting.
1825–1878. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Eternal Father, strong to save” |
Laurence Tuttiett.
1825–1897. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“O quickly come, dread Judge of all” |
Elizabeth Charles.
1827–1896. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Never further than Thy Cross!” |
II. “The strongest light casts deepest shades” |
III. “Around a Table, not a Tomb” |
Frances Elizabeth Cox.
1812–1897. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Jesus lives! no longer now” |
| Henry Collins. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all!” |
| The Moultries. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Gerard Moultrie.
1829–1885. | Midnight Hymn of the Eastern Church |
Catherine Winkworth.
1829–1878. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. The Rose of Sharon (“I know a Flower”) |
II. “O Love, who formedst me to wear” |
III. On the Death of a Little Child |
Philip Stanhope Worsley.
1831–1866. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “Out of the deeps” |
II. The Two Wills (“Oft as I act”) |
Richard Frederick Littledale.
1833–1890. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “From hidden source arising” |
II. “In Paradise Reposing” |
Sabine Baring-Gould.
1834–1924. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
“On the Resurrection morning” |
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint.
1835–1917. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Sacrifice of Praise (“For the beauty”) |
Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards.
1836–1919. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “God make my life a little light” |
II. “The little birds now seek their nest” |
Thomas Benson Pollock.
1836–1896. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
Children’s Litany (Part I) |
William Chatterton Dix.
1837–1898. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. Epiphany Hymn (“As with gladness”) |
II. Patience |
George Matheson.
1842–1906. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
I. “O Love that wilt not let me go” |
II. “Gather us in, Thou Love that fillest all” |
Ada Cross (Cambridge).
1844–1926. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Fourth Commandment (“The Dawn”) |
Sarah Doudney.
1841–1926. | Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
The Christian’s “Good-night” (“Sleep on, beloved”) |
