Short Name: | Eliza Cook |
Full Name: | Cook, Eliza, 1817-1889 |
Birth Year: | 1817 |
Death Year: | 1889 |
Cook, Eliza, daughter of a merchant in Southwark, was born Dec. 24, 1817, and died at Wimbledon, Sept. 23, 1889. Her works in poetry and prose are well and widely known. Her hymn published in 1860, "Father above, I pray to Thee" (Child's Evening Hymn), is in several hymn-books, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Cook, Eliza, p. 1558, i. She died at Wimbledon, Sept. 24 (not 23), 1889. Her hymn, "Father above, I pray," &c, is from her Poems, 1853, vol. iv., p. 201.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by Eliza Cook (14) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Father, holy Guardian, in Thy tender love | Eliza Cook (Author) | English | 3 |
Let us speak of a man as we find him, and censure | Eliza Cook (Author) | 3 | |
Lift the temperance banner higher | Eliza Cook (Author) | 2 | |
List, to the dreamy tone that dwells | Eliza Cook (Author) | 3 | |
Little sleeper Christ has taken | E. Cook (Author) | 2 | |
Live and let live 'tis the great law of nature | Eliza Cook (Author) | 2 | |
O, Father, won't you sign the pledge | Eliza Cook (Author) | 2 | |
Peaceful and fair is the smiling repose | Eliza Cook (Author) | 2 | |
Poison drops of care and sorrow | E. Cook (Author) | 1 | |
Speak gently, it is better far | Eliza Cook (Author) | English | 1 |
Sweet is the hour that brings us home | Eliza Cook (Author) | 2 | |
There is a star that cheers our way | Eliza Cook (Author) | 2 | |
They call the world a dreary place | Eliza Cook (Author) | English | 3 |
Will Jesus hear a little child | Eliza Cook (Author) | 1 |