The seas are quiet when the winds give over

The seas are quiet when the winds give over

Author: Edmund Waller
Published in 4 hymnals

Author: Edmund Waller

Waller, Edmund, poet and politician, born 1605, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and died in 1687. From his Poetical Works, 1730 (ed. by Fenton), his sweet lyric in Thring's Collection, 1882, and others, "The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er" (Old Age) is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

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First Line: The seas are quiet when the winds give over
Author: Edmund Waller
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Church of England Hymn Book #659

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Hymns and Chorales #12

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Hymns of the Ages #300

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The Westminster Abbey Hymn-Book #399

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