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Hymns from the Land of Luther #327
Display Title: After Many Farewells First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Author: Meta Heusser Date: 1884
Hymns from the Land of Luther #327
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Christ the Comforter
Long hast thou wept and sorrowed
Author: Meta Heusser-Schweitzer; Translator: Jane BorthwickTune: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN (Vulpius)
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Author: Meta Heusser-Schweitzer
Heusser-Schweizer, Meta, daughter of Diethelm Schweizer, pastor of the Reformed Church at Hirzel near Zurich, was born at Hirzel, April 6, 1797, and was married in 1821, to Johann Jakob Heusser, a physician at Hirzel. Dr. Heusser died at Hirzel in 1859, and his widow continued to reside there till her death on January 2, 1876 (Koch, vii. 377-381; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xii. 339, 340).
She was of a true poetic genius, and may fairly be regarded as the most important of modern German female sacred poets. The Holy Scriptures and the mountain scenery of her lonely home were the chief sources of her poetic inspiration. She was trained in the school of affliction, and her poems breathe the spirit of deep and sincere piety and childlike… Go to person page >Translator: Jane Borthwick
Miss Jane Borthwick, the translator of this hymn and many others, is of Scottish family. Her sister (Mrs. Eric Findlater) and herself edited "Hymns from the Land of Luther" (1854). She also wrote "Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (1859), and has contributed numerous poetical pieces to the "Family Treasury," under the signature "H.L.L." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >Arrangements
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Popular Hymns Number 2 #183
Display Title: Christ the Comforter First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Tune Title: [Long hast thou wept and sorrowed] Author: Meta Heusser Schweitzer Date: 1901
Popular Hymns Number 2 #183
Small Church Music #6893
Display Title: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Tune Title: VULPIUS
Small Church Music #6893
The Cyber Hymnal #3903
Display Title: Long Hast Thou Wept and Sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Tune Title: VULPIUS Author: Jane L. Borthwick; Meta Heusser-Schweizer Meter: CM Source: Hymns from the Land of Luther, fourth series, 1862
The Cyber Hymnal #3903
The Hymnal and Order of Service #183
Display Title: Long Hast Thou Wept and Sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Tune Title: ACH BLEIB MIT DEINER GNADE. (CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN.) Author: Meta Heusser-Schweizer Meter: 7 6, 7 6. Date: 1926 Subject: Church Year | Trinity Season; Comfort | ; Comfort in Sorrow | ; Death | Comfort for those bereaved by death; Trinity, Sixteenth Sunday |
The Hymnal and Order of Service #183
The Hymnal and Order of Service #183
Display Title: Long Hast Thou Wept and Sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Author: Meta Heusser-Schweitzer Date: 1937
The Hymnal and Order of Service #183
The Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod. Text ed. #d300
Display Title: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Author: Meta Heusser-Schweitzer Date: 1923
The Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod. Text ed. #d300
The Lutheran Hymnary #465
Display Title: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Tune Title: [Long hast thou wept and sorrowed] Author: Meta Heusser-Schweitzer Meter: 7, 6, 7, 6. Date: 1913 Subject: Cross and Comfort | ; Resurrection | ; The Church Year | Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
The Lutheran Hymnary #465
The Standard Church Hymnal #460
Display Title: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed First Line: Long hast thou wept and sorrowed Tune Title: CHRIST THE COMFORTER Author: Jane Borthwick; Meta Heusser Schweitzer Date: 1888
The Standard Church Hymnal #460
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