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"Even If" is a single from Christian rock band MercyMe from their 2017 studio album Lifer. [1] It samples the chorus of the hymn " It Is Well with My Soul ." The song was the number-one song on the Hot Christian Songs chart for three weeks.
"Jesus Loves Me" is a Christian hymn written by Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915). [1] The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of an 1860 novel called Say and Seal, written by her older sister Susan Warner (1819–1885), in which the words were spoken as a comforting poem to a dying child. [2]
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" is a popular song written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, setting new lyrics to a traditional Irish air that can be traced back into the 18th century. [1]
The tune style or form is technically designated "gospel songs" as distinct from hymns. Gospel songs generally include a refrain (or chorus) and usually (though not always) a faster tempo than the hymns. As examples of the distinction, "Amazing Grace" is a hymn (no refrain), but "How Great Thou Art" is a gospel song. [52]
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression. [1]The poem was included in her collection Fatal Interview, a sequence of 52 sonnets, appearing alongside other sonnets such as "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields," and "Love me no more, now let the god depart," rejoicing in romantic language and vulnerability. [2]
Dr. William Herbert Brewster, Sr. (July 2, 1897 – October 15, 1987) was a 20th century Renaissance man born just outside Memphis, Tennessee.He was a Baptist minister by trade as well as a crucial figure in African American history who made a lasting national impact as a poet, playwright, gospel music composer, orator and civil rights leader.
"In Christ Alone" is a popular modern Christian song written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, both songwriters of Christian hymns and contemporary worship music in the United Kingdom. The song, with a strong Irish melody, is the first hymn they penned together. [1] [2] The music was by Getty and the original lyrics by Townend. It was composed ...
Eben E. Rexford was born in Johnsburg, New York on July 16, 1848. [1] He moved with his family to Ellington, Wisconsin in 1855. His first poems were published in the New York Ledger when Rexford was 14.