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Thine anger, Lord, how short the stay

Author: Susanna Harrison Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

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Thine anger, Lord, how short the stay

Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: Hymns and Hymn Tunes in the English Metrical Psalters #d697 (1966) Hymnal Title: Hymns and Hymn Tunes in the English Metrical Psalters Languages: English

Thine anger, Lord, how short the stay

Hymnal: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.) #60 (1802) Hymnal Title: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.)

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Susannah Harrison

1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Thine anger, Lord, how short the stay" Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================================ Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age." In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America. Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives