Edward Rowland Sill

Edward  Rowland Sill
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Short Name: Edward Rowland Sill
Full Name: Sill, Edward Rowland, 1841-1887
Birth Year: 1841
Death Year: 1887

Sill, Edward Rowland, b. at Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1841, and educated at Yale. He was Prof. of English Literature in the University of California, 1874-1882. He died at Cleveland, O., Feb. 27, 1887. His poetical works include The Hermitage, 1867, and Venus of Milo, 1883. Several of his pieces are in Horder's Treasury of American Sacred Song, 1896-1900. His hymn, "Send down Thy truth, O God" (For the outpouring of the Holy Spirit), in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, is from The Hermitage, 1867.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) was an American poet and educator.

Texts by Edward Rowland Sill (11)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Fairest grace our soulsE. R. Sill (Author)2
Forenoon and afternoon and nightEdward Rowland Sill (Author)English2
Lord Jesus, thou art mineEdward Sill, 1841-1887 (Author)3
Send down Thy truth, O GodEdward R. Sill (Author)English78
The royal feast was doneEdward Rowland Sill (Author)English2
There lies a little city in the hillsEdward Rowland Sill (Author)English2
There's a good time coming, help it onE. R. Sill (Author)English3
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dreamEdward Rowland Sill (Author)English2
We think it is the rule, sirE. R. Sill (Author)English2
What if some morning, when the stars were palingEdward Rowland Sill (Author)English2
What may we take into the vast foreverEdward Rowland Sill (Author)English2

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