James Merrick

Life

Born: 1720

Died: 1769

Biography

James Merrick was an English poet and scholar: selections from his metrical versions of the first 75 psalms (1765) were made by the Rev. William Dechair Tattersall, and published with music in Tattersall's collection Improved Psalmody (1794).

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Settings of text by James Merrick

• Blest be the name of Jacob's God (Joseph Haydn)
• Blest who with gen'rous pity glows (James Nares)
• Blest who with generous pity glows (Thomas Clark)
• Defender of my rightful cause (Philip Hayes)
• Earth, big with empires, to thy reign (Robert Broderip)
• The festal morn, my God, is come (Aldham) (Thomas Clark)
• The festal morn, my God, is come (from A Ninth Set of Psalm Tunes) (Thomas Clark)
• How oft, instinct with warmth divine (Joseph Haydn)
• Lo, from the hills my help descends (Thomas Clark)
• Long life shall Israel's king behold (Joseph Haydn)
• The Lord, th'Almighty monarch, spake (Joseph Haydn)
• Maker of all! Be thou my guard (Joseph Haydn)
• My God, my God, O tell me why (Benjamin Cooke)
• My words, as grieved to God I pray (William Shield)
• O let me in th'accepted hour (Joseph Haydn)
• O weigh me, Lord, in equal scale (Samuel Arnold)
• A prey to want, oppressed with wrong (Richard Sampson)
• Rising Dawn (Oliver Holden)
• The sinner's lips, with curses fraught (Osborne Wight)
• Thy praise, O God, shall wake my lyre (James Nares)
• Thy suppliant's voice attentive weigh (Thomas Clark)
• Turn us, O Lord, thy face display (James Nares)
• VINTRY (Kathryn Rose)
• What eyes like thine, eternal Sire (William Shield)
• Where, Lord, shall I my refuge see? (Samuel Webbe)
• Why thus enraged, ye tribes profane? (Robert Cooke)
• Ye kings, from error's sleep arise (Richard Worgan)

Publications

• Merrick, James. 1765. The Psalms Translated or Paraphrased in English Verse. Reading, England: J. Carnan. 337 pp.

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