Parting Song

The time for parting now has come, What sadness fills each heart

Author: R. E. Winsett
Tune: [The time for parting now has come]
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: R. E. Winsett

Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: The time for parting now has come, What sadness fills each heart
Title: Parting Song
Author: R. E. Winsett
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O may we meet on heaven's bright shore
Publication Date: 1904
Copyright: Public Domain

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Abiding Faith #124

Favorite Songs #d84

Sacred Memories for Occasions of Reverence #d91

Songs of Perennial Glory #120

Songs of Spiritual Power; Songs that Win #d150

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