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| Short Name: | Josiah G. Holland |
| Full Name: | Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert), 1819-1881 |
| Birth Year: | 1819 |
| Death Year: | 1881 |
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, was born at Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819. He was for some time on the staff of the Springfield Republican, and became in 1870 the editor of Scribner's Magazine. He has written several successful books, and some poetical pieces. One of the latter, "For summer's bloom, and autumn's blight" (Praise in and through all things), was included, from Bitter Sweet, 1858, in the Boston Unitarian Hymn [and Tune] Book for the Church & Home, 1868. He died Oct. 12, 1881.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Holland, J. G. , p. 529, ii. His Christmas Carol, “There's a star in the sky," from The Marble Prophecy and other Poems, 1872, is included in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905. He died Oct. 12, 1881. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by Josiah G. Holland (13) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantan ángeles mil, brilla estrella de paz | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | Spanish | 4 |
| Day will return with a fresher boon | Josiah Gilbert Holland (Author) | English | 2 |
| Ein Gesang in der Luft | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | German | 1 |
| For summer's bloom and autumn's blight | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | English | 2 |
| Heaven is not reached by a single bound | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | English | 2 |
| Hither, sleep, a mother wants thee | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | English | 2 |
| I count this thing to be grandly true | J. G. Holland (Author) | English | 1 |
| Isi añgin mañgeg | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | Tagalog | 1 |
| Песьня ў небе гудзе, зь неба сьвеціць зара | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | Belarusian | 1 |
| Suena ya la canción | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | Spanish | 1 |
| The day is quenched, and the sun is fled | Josiah Gilbert Holland (Author) | English | 1 |
| There's a song in the air! There's a star in the sky! | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | English | 204 |
| Un arrullo escuchad | Josiah G. Holland (Author) | Spanish | 2 |
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