Reginald Heber was an English bishop, man of letters and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a rich landowner and cleric, Heber gained fame at the University of Oxford as a poet. After graduation he made an extended tour of Scandinavia, Russia and Central Europe. Ordained in 1807, he took over his father's old parish, Hodnet, Shropshire. He also wrote hymns and general literature, including a study of the works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor. He was consecrated Bishop of Calcutta in October 1823. He travelled widely and worked to improve the spiritual and general living conditions of his flock. Arduous duties, a hostile climate and poor health led to his collapse and death after less than three years in India. Memorials were erected there and in St Paul's Cathedral, London. A collection of his hymns appeared soon after his death. One, "Holy, Holy, Holy", remains popular for Trinity Sunday. Wikipedia
“Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.”
Tour Through Ceylon; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 273.
Hymns
"At a Funeral", No. I.
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"On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope".
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“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
" Missionary Hymn https://www.bartleby.com/294/37.html", st. 1 (1819).
Hymns
"The Son of God Goes Forth to War", st. 1 (1812).
Hymns
“I see them on their winding way,
About their ranks the moonbeams play.”
"Lines written to a March".
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“Failed the bright promise of your early day?”
Palestine, line 113.
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"At a Funeral", No. II.
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"Palestine"; this was altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung".
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Variante: No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence!
Missionary Hymn ("Java" in one version); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 487.
Hymns
“By cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the lily grows!”
"First Sunday After Epiphany", no. 2 (1812).
Hymns
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
The Harebell reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 353.
Hymns
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 189.
“Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.”
Journal; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 207.
Hymns
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 547.
