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Writers, the hymns they wrote, the tunes those hymns are sung to and the meters that let a text change tunes — drawn as one map. Hover or tap a name to see its connections, use the buttons to show or hide each kind, and click to open a page. Only connections confirmed by two sources or approved by an editor are drawn.
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Writers and their hymns
Isaac Watts: Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed, Holy Fortitude, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Joy to the World, Come, we that love the Lord, Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun, O God, Our Help in Ages Past, From All That Dwell Below the Skies, When I Can Read My Title Clear, Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs, Exhortation to Worship, The Glad Tidings of Salvation, A Penitent Pleading for Pardon, A Psalm for the Lord's Day, The Lord's Day, I'm Not Ashamed to Own the Lord, Blessedness of Gospel Times, Come, Sound His Praise, Evening: Memorials of His Grace, For the Lord's Day Morning, The Son of Man lifted up, A New Song for Morning and Evening, Faith in Christ Our Sacrifice
Charles Wesley: Jesus, Lover of My Soul, Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, O for a Thousand Tongues, A Charge to Keep I Have, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, O For a Heart to Praise My God, The Jubilee, Soldiers of Christ, Arise, Arise, My Soul, Arise, Depth of Mercy! Can There Be?, Rejoice, the Lord is King!, Come, Thou long expected Jesus, How Happy Are They, Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim
John Newton: Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken, Safely Through Another Week, Encouragement to Pray, Christ, a True Friend, May the Grace of Christ Our Savior, Pleading His Gracious Name
James Montgomery: Hail to the Lord's Anointed, Prayer Is the Soul's Sincere Desire, Angels From the Realms of Glory, The Horrors of the Second death, At Home In Heaven, The Lord Is My Shepherd
Philip Doddridge: Happy Day, Running the Christian Race, Grace! 'Tis a Charming Sound, Hark, the Glad Sound, How Gentle God's Commands
William Cowper: Praise for the Fountain opened, Walking with God, God Moves in a Mysterious Way, Hark, My Soul! It Is The Lord!
Reginald Heber: Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!, From Greenland's Icy Mountain, Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning, The Son of God goes forth to war
John Bowring: In the Cross of Christ, Watchman, Tell Us of the Night, God Is Love
Fanny Crosby: Blessed Assurance, Pass Me Not, Near the Cross
Robert Lowry: I Need Thee Every Hour, Shall We Gather at the River?, Nothing But the Blood of Jesus
Frederick William Faber: There's a Wideness in God's Mercy, Faith of Our Fathers, Hark, Hark, My Soul!
P. P. Bliss: Almost Persuaded, Wonderful Words of Life, Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
Augustus Toplady: Rock of Ages, Hail, Thou once-despisèd Jesus!
John Fawcett: Blest Be the Tie That Binds, All Scripture Precious
Samuel Francis Smith: My Country, 'Tis of Thee, The Morning Light is Breaking
S. Baring-Gould: Onward, Christian Soldiers, Now the Day Is Over
Henry Francis Lyte: Abide With Me, Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Samuel Stennett: On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
Frances Ridley Havergal: Take My Life, and Let It Be, I Gave My Life for Thee
J. Grigg: Glorying in the Cross of Christ, Christ at the Door
John Cennick: The Pilgrim's Song, The Way to Canaan
St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee, O sacred head now wounded
Thomas Ken: An Evening Hymn, Morning
Samuel Medley: The Lovingkindness of the Lord, O could I speak the matchless worth
Cecil Frances Alexander: Jesus Calls Us, O'er the Tumult, There Is a Green Hill Far Away
Joseph Addison: Thanksgiving for God's Particular Providence, Of the Glory of God in the Starry Heavens
E. A. Hoffman: Down at the Cross, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
George Washington Doane: The Night Cometh, Thou art the Way, to Thee alone
Anne Steele: Father, Whatever of Earthly Bliss, The Excellency of Scripture
Joseph Bromehead: Jerusalem, My Happy Home, The Heavenly Jerusalem
F. B. P.: Jerusalem, My Happy Home, The Heavenly Jerusalem
William Hammond: Opening Worship, Awake and Sing the Song
Mary A. Lathbury: Break Thou the Bread of Life, Day Is Dying in the West
Martin Luther: A Mighty Fortress, Away in a Manger
William Walsham How: O Jesus, Thou Art Standing, For all the Saints, who from their labor rest
Thomas Kelly: Hark! Ten Thousand Harps, On the Mountain's Top Appearing
Edward Perronet: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
Sarah Flower Adams: Nearer, My God, to Thee
Charlotte Elliott: Just as I Am, Without One Plea
Ray Palmer: My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Robert Robinson: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Martin Madan: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
George Keith: How Firm a Foundation
George Duffield: Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
Joseph Medlicott Scriven: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
J. Hart: Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy
John Keble: Sun of my soul, Thou Savior Dear
William W. Walford: Sweet Hour of Prayer
Timothy Dwight: I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord
George Heath: My Soul, Be on Thy Guard
George Whitefield: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Thomas Shepherd: Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone
Kate Hankey: I Love to Tell the Story
W. G. Fischer: I Love to Tell the Story
Hugh Stowell: From Every Stormy Wind That Blows
Jeremiah Eames Rankin: God Be With You Till We Meet Again
Edward Hopper: Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me
Mrs. Harry Coghill: Work, for the Night is Coming
Horatius Bonar: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
William R. Featherston: My Jesus, I Love Thee
J. H. Duffell: My Jesus, I Love Thee
Robert Grant: O Worship the King all glorious above
Dorothy A. Thrupp: Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Edward Mote: My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Margaret Mackay: Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep
Nahum Tate: While Shepherds Watched their Flocks
Annie S. Hawks: I Need Thee Every Hour
Thomas Moore: Come, Ye Disconsolate
Thomas Hastings: Come, Ye Disconsolate
Will L. Thompson: Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
John H. Stockton: Come, Every Soul
E. W. Blandly: Where He Leads Me
Elvina M. Hall: Jesus Paid It All
Edmund H. Sears: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
W. McDonald: I Am Coming to the Cross
Phillips Brooks: O Little Town of Bethlehem
S. J. Stone: The Church's One Foundation
Bernard, of Cluny: Jerusalem the Golden
E. Prentiss: More Love to Thee
James Edmeston: Evening Prayer
Matthew Bridges: Crown Him with Many Crowns
Godfrey Thring: Crown Him with Many Crowns
James Allen: Sweet the Moments
Walter Shirley: Sweet the Moments
Andrew Reed: Holy Spirit, Light Divine
John Francis Wade: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Christopher Wordsworth: O Day of Rest and Gladness
Knowles Shaw: Bringing in the Sheaves
William Hunter: The Great Physician
Sanford Fillmore Bennett: In the Sweet By and By
H. R. Palmer: Yield Not to Temptation
Lewis Hartsough: I Hear Thy Welcome Voice
Robert Seagrave: The Better Portion
Henry Alford: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
William Kethe: All People That on Earth Do Dwell
Lydia Baxter: Take the Name of Jesus with You
James Nicholson: Whiter than Snow
George Matheson: O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
Arnulf, Abbot of Villers-la-Ville: O sacred head now wounded
Paul Gerhardt: O sacred head now wounded
Joseph Mohr: Silent Night, Holy Night
Martin Rinkart: Now Thank We All Our God
M. M. Wells: Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide
William Hiley Bathurst: For Victorious Faith
Phoebe Cary: One Sweetly Solemn Thought
William B. Tappan: Olive's Brow
Edmund Jones: The Successful Resolve
H. W. Baker: The King of Love My Shepherd Is
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint: For the Beauty of the Earth
Anna Bartlett Warner: Jesus Loves Me, This I Know
Elizabeth Mills: We'll Work Till Jesus Comes
William Augustus Muhlenberg: I Would Not Live Alway
W. Chatterton Dix: As With Gladness Men of Old
Helen Maria Williams: My Meditation of Him Shall be Sweet
John Ernest Bode: O Jesus, I Have Promised
Frederick Whitfield: O How I Love Jesus
Siegfried A. Mahlmann: God Bless Our Native Land
Friedrich von Spee: Fairest Lord Jesus
Thomas Rawson Taylor: I'm But a Stranger Here
Benjamin Schmolck: My Jesus, as Thou wilt!
Washington Gladden: O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee
Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Eliza Holmes Reed: O Why Not Tonight?
Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans: All Glory, Laud and Honor
John T. McFarland: Away in a Manger
John Bakewell: Hail, Thou once-despisèd Jesus!
David Dickson: The Heavenly Jerusalem
Priscilla Jane Owens: Jesus Saves
S. Dryden Phelps: Something for Jesus
Anna Barbauld: Praise To God, Immortal Praise