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Suspiria

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Take them, O death, and bear away

Author: Henry W. Longfellow
Published in 4 hymnals

Author: Henry W. Longfellow

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth , D.C.L. was born at Portland, Maine, Feb. 27, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. After residing in Europe for four years to qualify for the Chair of Modern Languages in that College, he entered upon the duties of the same. In 1835 he removed to Harvard, on his election as Professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres. He retained that Professorship to 1854. His literary reputation is great, and his writings are numerous and well known. His poems, many of which are as household words in all English-speaking countries, display much learning and great poetic power. A few of these poems and portions of others have come into common use as hymns, but a hymn-writer in the strict sense of that term he… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Take them, O death, and bear away
Title: Suspiria
Author: Henry W. Longfellow
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals186618671868186918701871187218731874187518761877187818791880050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
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Church Harmonies #725

Prayers and Hymns for the Church and the Home #d616

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Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #223

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Songs of the Soul #213

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