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My song is love unknown
Author: Samuel Crossman (c. 1624-1683) Meter: 6.6.12.8.8 Appears in 127 hymnals Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Lyrics: 1 My song is love unknown,
my Savior’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I, that for my sake
my Lord should take frail flesh, and die?
2 He came from his blest throne,
salvation to bestow:
but people scorned, and none the longed-for Christ would know.
But O my Friend, my Friend indeed,
who at my need his life did spend!
3 Sometimes they strew his way,
and his strong praises sing;
resounding all the day hosannas to their King.
Then 'Crucify!' is all their breath,
and for his death they thirst and cry.
4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run, he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries! Yet they at these
themselves displease, and 'gainst him rise.
5 They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful he to suffering goes,
that he his foes from thence might free.
6 In life, no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
in death, no friendly tomb but what a stranger gave.
What may I say? Heaven was his home:
but mine the tomb wherein he lay.
7 Here might I stay and sing:
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine!
This is my Friend, in whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death; Christian Year Holy Week Used With Tune: LOVE UNKNOWN
My song is love unknown
Declension
Author: George W. Bethune Appears in 56 hymnals Scripture: Lamentations 1:4 First Line: Oh, for the happy hour Lyrics: 1 Oh, for the happy hour
When God will hear our cry,
And send, with a reviving power,
His Spirit from on high.
2 While many crowd thy house,
How few, around thy board,
Meet to recount their solemn vows,
And bless thee as their Lord!
3 Thou, thou alone canst give
Thy gospel sure success;
Canst bid the dying sinner live
Anew in holiness.
4 Come, then, with power divine,
Spirit of life and love!
Thou shall this people all be thine,
This church like that above. Topics: Church Missions of; Church Revival of; Church Work of Used With Tune: ST. BRIDE
Declension
Alone Thou Goest Forth
Author: F. Bland Tucker; Peter Abelard Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 First Line: Alone Thou goest forth, O Lord Topics: The Worship of God; The Son Suffering And Death
Alone Thou Goest Forth
LOVE UNKNOWN
Meter: 6.6.12.8.8 Appears in 82 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Nicholson Ireland (1879-1962) Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 35632 12345 36676 Used With Text: My song is love unknown
LOVE UNKNOWN
[Is any sorrow like the sorrow that afflicsts me]
Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 33671 1717 Used With Text: All You Who Pass This Way
[Is any sorrow like the sorrow that afflicsts me]
When I survey the wondrous cross
Author: Isaac Watts. 1674-1748 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #287a (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Topics: Jesus Christ the Suffering Servant: The Passion and The Cross Languages: English Tune Title: ROCKINGHAM (COMMUNION)
When I survey the wondrous cross
When I survey the wondrous cross
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #287b (2011) Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Topics: Jesus Christ the Suffering Servant: The Passion and The Cross Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY
When I survey the wondrous cross
He died for thee
Hymnal: New Hymn and Tune Book #83a (1889) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 First Line: Behold the Saviour of mankind Topics: Jesus Christ Sufferings and Death Languages: English Tune Title: WINDSOR
He died for thee
Samuel Crossman
1623 - 1684 Person Name: Samuel Crossman (c. 1624-1683) Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Author of "My song is love unknown" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Crossman, Samuel , B.D. From A. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1720, vol. ii. p. 730) we gather all that is known of this hymnwriter. Wood says concerning him:—
"Samuel Crossman, Bachelor of Divinity of Cambridge, and Prebendary of Bristol, son of Samuel Crossman, of Bradfield Monachorum, in Suffolk. He hath written and published several things, as The Young Man's Monitor, &c, London, 1664, 8vo., and several sermons, among which are two sermons preached in the Cathedral of Bristol, 30th Jan., 1679, and 30th Jan., 1680, being the days of public humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles I, printed at London, 1681, &c.; also a sermon preached 23rd April, 1680, in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, before the Gentlemen of the Artillery Company newly raised in that City, printed at London, 1680, &c; and, "An Humble Plea for the quiet rest of God's Ark," preached before Sir Joh. Moore, Lord Mayor of London, at St. Mildred's Church in the Poultrey, 5th February, 1681, London, 1682, 4to, &c. He died 4th February, 1683, aged 69 years, and was buried in the South Aisle of the Cathedral Church in Bristol" [of which he had been appointed Dean a few weeks before].
Crossman's contributions to hymnody were given in a small pamphlet entitled:—
The Young Man's Meditation, or some few Sacred Poems upon Select Subjects, and Scriptures. By Samuel Crossman, B.D. London, Printed by J. H., &c, 1664.
This pamphlet, which was reprinted by D. Sedgwick, London, 1863, contains 9 sacred poems. Of these the following are in common use:—
1. My life's a shade, my days. Resurrection. This is in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, together with a chorus to each stanza of 4 Lines. It is sometimes given as "Life is a shade, my days," as in Kennedy, 1863.
2. Sweet place, sweet place alone, Pt. i. Jerusalem on high, Pt. ii. These two parts form one poem on Heaven. The most popular portion is Pt. ii. This is given in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. Part i. is not so extensively used. From the two parts the cento "Earth's but a sorry tent," in the Dutch Reformed Hymns of the Church, N. Y. 1869, is also taken.
3. Farewell, poor world, I must be gone. Death anticipated. This is given in the Comprehensive Rippon, 1844, and in a few of the older American hymnbooks.
4. My song is love unknown. In the Anglican Hymnbook, 1863
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Samuel Crossman
John Ireland
1879 - 1962 Person Name: John Nicholson Ireland (1879-1962) Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Composer of "LOVE UNKNOWN" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Ireland (1879-1962) studied at Durham University in England and became a church organist, choirmaster, editor, and lecturer, eventually teaching at the Royal College of Church Music. He was a gifted composer of music for voice, piano, organ, chamber music, and orchestra that were recognized for their excellence during his lifetime; LOVE UNKNOWN was his only hymn tune, found today in numerous hymnals.
Emily Brink
John Ireland
Bland Tucker
1895 - 1984 Person Name: F. Bland Tucker Scripture: Lamentations 1:12 Translator of "Alone Thou Goest Forth" in Hymns of Faith and Life Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.
His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940
Bland Tucker
