O tender heart, strong ark which doth enshrine

Author: Rosa Mulholland

Gilbert, Rosa, née Mulholland, daughter of J. S. Mulholland, M.D., of Belfast, and wife of Sir John T. Gilbert, is the author of Vagrant Verses, 1886, and many novels, &c. Her hymn, "Give me, O Lord, a heart of Grace" (Resignation), is in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and others. It is from her Vagrant Verses, p. 154, where it is given as "A Prayer." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >