William Cowper

Life

Born: 26 November 1731

Died: 25 April 1800

Biography

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Settings of text by William Cowper

• Ashford (Samuel Babcock)
• Aspiring Praise (Oliver Holden)
• Caledonia (Samuel Babcock)
• The Contrite Heart (Kathryn Rose)
• Cowper (Oliver Holden)
• The Cricket (Jacob Franklin King)
• Dependence (Oliver Holden)
• Dix-Hills (Oliver Holden)
• Far from the world, O Lord, I flee (Horatio W. Parker)
• Gift (Oliver Holden)
• God moves in a mysterious way (Anonymous)
• Hark, my soul! It is the Lord (John Bacchus Dykes)
• Iceland (Oliver Holden)
• Jesus, where'er thy people meet (William Knapp)
• The Lord will happiness divine (Thurlow Weed)
• Lovest Thou Me (1846) (William Walker)
• Maesycwmmer (Anonymous)
• Meeting Street (Oliver Shaw)
• Mercy Seat (Oliver Holden)
• My former hopes are fled (Thomas Clark)
• NORBERG (Kathryn Rose)
• O for a closer walk with God (Anonymous)
• Oh for a closer walk with God (Charles Villiers Stanford)
• Oh! for a closer walk with God (Myles Birket Foster)
• Olney (Oliver Holden)
• Reber's Ground (Thurlow Weed)
• Rejoice, O land, in God thy might (William Knapp)
• Retirement (Oliver Holden)
• Richmond (Alexander Gillet)
• Sometimes a light surprises (Johann Michael Haydn)
• Sweet Stream that winds through yonder glade (William Sterndale Bennett)
• Two Pentatonic Hymns (1988) (Caroline S. Arnold)
• Wareham (Andrew Sims)
• Winter-Street (Oliver Holden)

Publications

• Newton, John; and William Cowper. 1779. Olney Hymns, in Three Books. London, England. 376 pp.

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