Reginald Heber

Born:  April 21, 1783, Malpas, Cheshire, England.

Died:  Ap­ril 3, 1826, Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli),
Tamil Nadu, India, of a cerebral hemorrhage while bathing.

Buried:  St. John’s Church, Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu, India (north side of the altar).

    Heber attended Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won a number of awards in English and Latin. He received a fellowship to All Souls College, and later became Rector at Hodnet, Shropshire, England. In 1823, he became, somewhat reluctantly, Bishop of Calcutta, India. Most of his hymns were not published until after his death; 57 of them appeared in Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (London: J. Murray, 1827).

Hymns

  1. Beneath Our Feet, and o’er Our Head
  2. Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken
  3. Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
  4. By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill
  5. Creator of the Rolling Flood
  6. Feeble Pulse, the Gasping Breath, The
  7. Forth from the Dark and Stormy Sky
  8. From Foes That Would the Land Devour
  9. From Greenland's Icy Mountains
  10. God of Glory Walks His Round, The
  11. God, That Madest Earth and Heaven
  12. Holy, Holy, Holy
  13. Hosanna to the Living Lord
  14. Lo, the Lilies of the Field
  15. Lord of Mercy and Might
  16. Lord of Might from Sinai's Brow, The
  17. Lord Will Come! The Earth Shall Quake, The
  18. O Captain of God's Host
  19. O God, by Whom the Seed Is Given
  20. O God, My Sins Are Manifold
  21. O Hand of Bounty, Largely Spread
  22. O King of Earth, and Air, and Sea
  23. O More Than Merciful, Whose Bounty Gave
  24. O Most Merciful! O Most Bountiful
  25. O Savior, Whom This Holy Morn
  26. O Thou, Who Gav'st Thy Servant Grace
  27. O Thou, Whom Neither Time Nor Space
  28. O Weep Not o’er Thy Children’s Tomb
  29. Oh, Savior, Is Thy Promise Fled
  30. Room for the Proud! Ye Sons of Clay
  31. Sit Thou on My Right Hand
  32. Son of God Goes Forth to War, The
  33. Sound of War in Earth and Air, The
  34. Spirit of Truth, on This Thy Day
  35. There Was Joy in Heaven
  36. Thou Art Gone to the Grave
  37. Though Sorrows Rise and Dangers Roll
  38. To Conquer and Save, the Son of God
  39. Virgin-Born, We Bow Before Thee
  40. Wake Not, O Mother, Sounds of Lamentation
  41. When on Her Maker’s Bosom
  42. When Through the Torn Sail
  43. Who Yonder on the Desert Heath
  44. World Is Grown Old, Her Pleasures are Past, The