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"Wrestling Jacob", also known by its incipit, "Come, O thou Traveller unknown", is a Christian hymn written by Methodist hymn writer Charles Wesley.It is based on the biblical account of Jacob wrestling with an angel, from Genesis 32:24-32, with Wesley interpreting this as an analogy for Christian conversion.
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35. [1] It was written for himself and his life-partner, the tenor Peter Pears , and its first performance was by them at the Wigmore Hall , London on 22 November 1945.
Annie Rebekah Smith (March 16, 1828 – July 26, 1855) [1] was an early American Seventh-day Adventist hymnist, and sister of the Adventist pioneer Uriah Smith.. She has three hymns in the current (6,8,&9 below), and had 10 hymns in the previous Seventh-day Adventist Church Hymnal.
The dating of the poems' composition has been tied to the dating of Donne's conversion to Anglicanism. His first biographer, Izaak Walton, claimed the poems dated from the time of Donne's ministry (he became a priest in 1615); modern scholarship agrees that the poems date from 1609 to 1610, the same period during which he wrote an anti-Catholic polemic, Pseudo-Martyr.
The popularity of the hymn coincided with the use of vernacular languages following the Second Vatican Council. [2] Along with its use in the Worship hymnal for the Catholic Church, the hymn also appears in the Episcopal Church's The Hymnal 1982 and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Evangelical Lutheran Worship. [3]
Church Poetry (1823) [34] Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1828) [35] Introits: or Ante-Communion Psalms for the Sundays and Holy Days Throughout the Year (1844) [36] Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States (1845) [37] Ancient Hymns of Holy Church by John Williams (1845) [38]
Holy Sonnet VIII – also known by its opening words as If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified – is a poem written by John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. It was first published in 1633, two years after the author's death. [1] It is included in the "Holy Sonnets," a collection of nineteen poems written by John Donne.
His journal contains 736 hymns. [1] Collections of his writings were published in the pamphlet "Voice from the Mountains" in 1881 and a 344-page book of poems in 1882. His most sung hymn, "High on the Mountain Top", was written on February 19, 1853. [1] Other estimates place Johnson's total work in writing hymn texts and poems at about 1,000. [17]