Lord, thou didst arise and say

Author: Henry Hart Milman

Milman, Henry Hart, D.D., the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman (who received his Baronetage as an eminent Court physician), was born Feb. 10th, 1791, and educated at Dr. Burney's at Greenwich, and subsequently at Eton. His career at B. N. C. Oxford, was brilliant. He took a first class in classics, and carried off the Newdigate, Latin Verse, Latin Essay, and English Essay. His Newdigate on the Apollo Belvedere, 1812, is styled by Dean Stanley "the most perfect of Oxford prize poems." His literary career for several years promised to be poetical. His tragedy Fazio was played at Covent Garden, Miss O'Neill acting Bianca. Samor was written in the year of his appointment to St. Mary's, Reading (1817); The Fall of Jerusalem (1820); Belshazzar… Go to person page >

Lord, Thou didst arise and say. H. H. Milman. Christ Stilling the Tempest.] First published in Bishop Heber's posthumous Hymns, &c, 1827, p. 36, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines, and appointed for the 4th Sunday after the Epiphany, being based on the Gospel for that day. It was repeated in Milman's Psalms & Hymns, 1837, and subsequently in many hymn-books in Great Britain and America.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)