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Short Name: | Morgan Rhys |
Full Name: | Rhys, Morgan, 1716-1776 |
Birth Year: | 1716 |
Death Year: | 1776 |
Rhys, Morgan, a famous Welsh hymnwriter of the last century. He published several collections of hymns under quaint titles. Golwg o ben Nebo ar wlad yr Addewid (A View of the land of promise from the top of Mr. Nebo). Frwyd Ysbrydal (The Spiritual Warfare). Graddfanan y Credadyn, &c. (The Groanings of the Believer). He died in 1776, and was buried at Llanfynydd Church, in Caermarthenshire. [Rev. W. Glenffrwd Thomas]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Rhys, Morgan, p. 959, i. A short notice of this writer (a schoolmaster in connection with the Calvinistic Methodists), is given in H. Elvet Lewis's Sweet Singers of Wales, 1889, together with a few translations into English of his hymns.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Texts by Morgan Rhys (15)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Aed sain yr utgorn arian mawr | Morgan Rhys (Author (stanza 3)) | Welsh | 2 |
Dan Dy fendith, wrth ymadael | Morgan Rhys. (1716-1779) (Author) | Welsh | 3 |
Daw plant y gaethglud adre (The captives' brighter morrow) | Morgan Rhys (Author (stanza 3)) | English, Welsh | 2 |
Dewch, hen ac ieuainc, dewch | M. R. (Author (stanza 1)) | Welsh | 2 |
Dyma Geidwad i'r colledig | Morgan Rhys (Author) | 3 | |
Fyth, fyth, rhyfedda'i 'r cariad | Morgan Rhys (Author) | 2 | |
Gwnaed concwest ar Galfaria fryn | M. R. (Author) | Welsh | 3 |
Hen afon yr Iorddonen | M. R. (Author of Welsh text (stanzas 2, 3)) | Welsh | 1 |
Hosanna, Haleluwia, I'r Oen fu ar Galfaria | Morgan Rhys (Author) | 3 | |
O agor fy llygaid I weled | Morgan Rhys (Author) | 3 | |
O gariad! O gariad Anfeidrol ei faint | Morgan Rhys, 1716-1779 (Author) | Welsh | 5 |
Pechadur wyf, O Arglwydd! | M. R. (Author) | English, Welsh | 3 |
Peraidd ganodd sêr y boreu | Morgan Rhys (Author (stanzas 1, 3)) | Welsh | 3 |
Sweetly sang the glorious angels | Morgan Rhys (Author) | 1 | |
Wel, dyma'r Un sy'n madden | Morgan Rhys (Author) | Welsh | 3 |