The B. F. White Sacred Harp (Cooper Book) Poet Index

Poets

Adams, Sarah Fuller (Flower)

488b Nearer, My God, To Thee (Bethany)

Addison, Joseph

402 Protection

Aiken, George

59b Holy Manna

Allen, James

54t Palmetto

Allen, Rueben Perser

566 O Blessed Day

Allen, Thomas Jefferson

504 God’s Wondrous Love
509 We Are Going Home
540 She Is Sleeping (Arranged)
560 Singing As I Go
568 Gone to Rest
555 Praise the Redeemer (chorus)

Auber, Harriet

431 New Bethany

Austin, C. H.

86 Guiding Spirit

Barlow, Joel

264t Great God, Attend (Duke Street)

Bassett, J. W.

198 Jesus Saves (Raymond)

Bathurst, William Hiley

66 Security

Beddome, Benjamin

32b Weeping Saviour
68b Come Holy Spirit (Abbeville)
225t Newry
499 Where Love In Glory Shines

Bennett, Sanford Fillmore

500 Sweet By and By

Blain, John

62 Parting Hand
398t Farewell to All

Bonar, Horatius

75 I Would See Jesus (2nd Verse)

Boyden, L.

393t I’m Wandering To and Fro

Broaddus, Andrew

152 Bruce’s Address
325 The Cause of Christ

Brown, John S.

571 Not Made With Hands

Brown, Phoebe Hindale

511t Brown

Browne, Simon

138b Ogletree

Burnham, Richard

58 Pisgah

Carver, Stewart

336t Hester (3rd Verse)

Cennick, John

53 Jerusalem
88t Done With the World
163b Marysville
209 Sing His Praise
324 Northport
405 Children of the Heavenly King (The Marcellas)

Cleland, Thomas

54b Farewell, My Brethren (Imandra New)

Cofer, P. A.

511b Jesus Died for Me

Cole, Charles

99 Gospel Trumpet

Courtney, Margaret

413 The Loved Ones

Cowper, Frances Maria

379 Span of Life
407 Charlton

Cowper, William

27 Bethel
46 The Fountain of Life
77b The Saviour’s Word (Talbotton)
168 Cowper
287 Cambridge
342 Fountain of Life
368t Remember Me
491 Closer Walk With God
505 Cleansing Fountain
513t The Christian’s Desire (Avon)

Dana, Mary Stanley Bunce

312 Sing to Me of Heaven
323b Soft Music
339 When I Am Gone
410 Willie
459 Tolling Bell

Davis, Mary E.

465 Trusting

Davis, R. H.

119 Heaven’s My Home

DeFleury, Maria

384 Longing for Heaven (Panting for Heaven)

Denham, David

161 Sweet Home

Denson, Amanda Burdette

535t Kelley

Doane, George W.

70b Evening

Doddridge, Philip

31t Ninety-Third Psalm
68t Do Not I Love Thee (Detroit)
112 The Last Words of Copernicus
121 Florence
187 The Christian’s Race
266t O Happy Day (Gravity)
440b Sharpsburg
446b Charming Sound
466 The Christian’s Flight

Dumas, Eld. Edmund

444b The Teacher’s Farewell

Duncan, Mary Lundie

455t Vesper

Dwight, Timothy

448 I Love Thy Kingdon

Ecking, Samuel

278t Sweet Heaven
429 Christian’s Delight

Elliott, Charlotte

436t Humble Penitent

Fawcett, John

95b The Christian’s Love
205 Pleasant Hill

Francis, Benjamin

123t The Dying Christian

Gambold, John

369 Send a Blessing

Gibbons, Thomas

442t Blooming Youth

Givens, D. J.

84 The Crucified Saviour

Granade, John Adam

61 Sweet Rivers
83b The Weary Souls
102 Fulfillment

Green, William L.

380t Nettie

Grigg, Joseph

32t I’m Not Ashamed of Jesus (Corinth)
532 O Jesus, Ever with Us Stay

Hammond, William

70t Gainsville
575 Davis (Lonsdale)

Hapley, W. C.

344 We’ll Meet Beyond the Grave

Harris, Kate

398b The Dying Californian

Hart, Joseph

81 Jesus Is Willing (Beach Spring)
93 Frozen Heart
147 Washington
368b Newman
422b The Grieved Soul

Haskell, Rev. Jefferson

463 Angel Band (Land of Beulah)

Heath, George

447b Laban

Heber, Reginald

158 Funeral Thought
224 Save, Lord, or We Perish

Heginbothom, Ottiwell

434 Thus Will I Sing (Fillmore)

Hicks, B.

124b The Dying Minister
426b The Time is Rolling On (Shiloah)

Hunter, Mrs. J. M.

530 God’s Unchanging Hand
545 I Have a Precious Friend

Hunter, William

111b To Die No More
116 I Will Shout and Sing in Glory (2nd, 3rd, & 4th Verses)
432 The Heavenly Mansion
462 Fatherland
467 Pray, Brethren, Pray
488t Unity

Jackson, Judge

519 My Mother’s Gone

Jernigan, Mrs. Emma

514 I Love to Sing of Jesus
516 The Gates of Paradise

Jones, Edmund

29t Come, Humble Sinner (Fairfield)
294 Never Part

Keeton, Margaret

464 Hocutt

Kemperfelt, Richard

139 Elysian

Ken, Thomas

49t Old Hundred (2nd verse)

Kidder, Mrs. Mary Ann

483 Where the Saints Are Passing Over

Kieffer, Aldine Silliman

515 When the Lord Shall Come for Me

King, John

178 Hosanna

Lee, Clark

380b Humble Pleadings

Lee, David I.

273 Marthasville

Leland, John

82 Bound for Canaan
85 The Morning Trumpet
106 Ecstacy
129 Heavenly Armor
132 Evening Shade
319 Religion Is a Fortune
320 The Lost City
322 Soon We Shall Land on Canaan’s Shore (Autauga)
326 Weary Pilgrim

Leopard, Herbert

512 Oh, How Wonderful!

Lowry, Rev. Robert

449 Beautiful River

Lyte, Henry F.

370 Monroe

M., W.

55 Shall We Know Each Other There?

McLendon, A. J.

539 Bidding Farewell to Loved Ones

McNaughton, John H.

518 Love At Home

Medley, Samuel

275t Loving-Kindness
277 Antioch
424 Sweet Union
453t Clark
493 Where Heavenly Joy Imparts
513b Whosoever Will

Merritt, John Newton

392 Little Pilgrim

Miller, John Wesley

522 Shades of Night
524 My Home Above

Miller, William

105b Turn, Sinner, Turn

Mills, Elizabeth King

154b Eden
284 The Christian’s Rest
285b Land of Rest
386 Carry Me Home
390 New Prospect
430 Land of Rest
438t Missouri

Milman, H. H.

149 The Trumpet

Montgomery, James

164 Duane Street

Moore, W. F.

461 Let Us Sing

More, Hannah

136 Morality

Newell, Mrs. Laura E.

174 Gospel Message

Newton, John

45t Amazing Grace (New Britain)
49b Will God Forever Cast Us Off? (Mear) (4th verse)
52b Prayer of Bartimeus (Charlestown)
56 Salem
113 The Prodigal Son
127 Green Fields
146 Hallelujah (3rd Verse)
148 Jefferson
176b The Good Physician
177 Jesus Loves to Answer Prayer
268b Texas
283t How Sweet the Name (Ortonville)
331t The Father’s Boundless Love (Columbiana)
331b Mercy, O Thou Son of David (Villulia)
335 Return Again
362 The Lord’s Promise
367 Dear Name! The Rock on Which I Stand
438b Jewett
444t The Gospel Pool
458 Friendship
533 Thy Love Proclaim (verses)

Nowlin, Morris

133 John 4:14

P., F. B.

343 Long Sought Home

Parris, O. A.

559 Will You Meet Me?

Pearce, Samuel

145b The Child’s Prayer (Sweet Affliction)
330b Sacred Music

Perronet, Edward

63 Coronation (1st & 2nd Verse)
533 Thy Love Proclaim (chorus)

Pope, Alexander

245 Vital Spark (Claremont)

Pratt, P. P.

100 The Bower of Prayer

Rev. H. Smith Rees

473 Jesus Rose

Rees, John P.

345t Jesus Is My Friend

Rhodes, Benjamin

394 Messiah’s Praise

Riley, E. W.

529 When Jesus Calls

Rippon, John

38t Sessions
63 Coronation (3rd Verse)

Robinson, Robert

59t Lord Revive Us (Holy Manna)
135 Olney
145t Streams of Mercy (Warrenton)
268t Restoration
333 Family Circle
457 Zion’s Ship
474 Rest for the Weary

Rountree, D. Wilson

34 Gone to a Better World
569 He Leads Me All the Way

Sanders, Thomas Franklin

37 The Christian’s Home

Sawyer, S. B.

338 Rise to the Mansions of Glory

Scott, Rev. Thomas

396 Look to Jesus, Weary One

Seagrave, Robert

131b Invocation
508 Amsterdam

Senn, C. M.

534 The Saints Will Be Gathered There
554 Where the Soul Shall Never Die

Shaffer, Lacy Freer

229 The Great Roll Call

Shepherd, Thomas

279 Cross for You and Me

Smith, Samuel Francis, D. D.

395t Can I Leave You?
416t My Native Land
484 My Country ’Tis of Thee (America)

Steele, Anne

50b Distress

Stennett, Samuel

44 The Converted Thief
51 My Home (Lisbon)
65 Sweet Prospect
128 The Promised Land
131t Messiah
365 Southwell
378t The Heavenly Port
439 Adoration
478 March On
557 Jordan’s Banks

Stites, Edgar Page

573 Trusting Jesus

Stowell, Hugh

96 Mercy Seat

Tate, Nahum

98 Glory Shone Around
186 Sherburne

Taylor, Caleb Jarvis

109 Carnsville
125 Expression

Terry, John S.

119 Heaven’s My Home

Thompson, Will Lamartine

328 There’s a Great Day Coming

Tillou, W. C.

39 Eden of Love

Toplady, Rev. Augustus Montague

107t Rock of Ages (Toplady)
403 Heavenly Rest

Turner, William S.

543 Consecration

Vaughn, Benjamin Lewis

521 A Golden Crown to Wear

Vaughn, Robert Lee

468 Sweet Thought

Wade, John F.

223 Portuguese Hymn

Watts, Isaac

28t Will Guide Us Till We Die (Aylesbury)
28b Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord (Wells)
30t Rochester
30b Prospect
31b Come, We That Love the Lord (Webster)
35 Augusta
36t America
36b Ninety-Fifth Psalm
38b The Road to Life and Death (Windham)
41 Poyner
43 The Hope of Heaven (Primrose Hill)
45b Supplication
47t Salvation, O the Joyful Sound (Primrose)
48t Devotion
49b Will God Forever Cast Us Off? (Mear) (1st, 2nd, & 3rd verse)
50t Consolation
52t Albion
57 Am I a Soldier of the Cross? (Christian Soldier)
71 My Soul Forsakes Her Vain Delight (Leander)
73t Show Pity, Lord (Cusseta)
73b Soldiers of Christ (Arlington)
74t The Inquirer
91 Assurance
117 Timmons
118 Sounding Joy
120 The Lord Jehovah Reigns (Chambers)
124t Heavenly Land
138t Song to the Lamb
142 Stratfield
151 Symphony
154t Holy Land
155 How Long, Dear Saviour (Northfield)
157 How We Grovel Here Below (Zynder-Zee)
162 Hark! from the Tomb (Plenary)
163t Morning
166 Joyful
169 Dartmouth
171 Exhortation
173 To Thee Will I Direct My Prayer (Phoebus)
182 Newburgh
183 Arbacoochee
184b Tribulation
189 Montgomery
192 Schenectady
193 Huntington
195 Worchester
200 With Songs and Honors (Edom)
202 New Lebanon
203 Florida
206 Come, Friends, Go With Me
210 Minnesota
211 Whitestown
212 Sharon
214 Repentance
216 Delight
217 Great God, Attend (Ballstown)
218 Mount Pleasant
220 Mount Zion
222 Ocean
242 Newton
243b To Thee I Call (Hingham)
244 Joyful News (Irwinton)
264b Hebron
267t Sacred Stream
267b Hedgeburg
269 The Judgement
271t Safety
272 Exhortation
274b Baldwin
275b Roll On
276 Bridgewater
280 Vain World, Be Gone (Westford)
283b Am I a Soldier? (Ortonville)
289 Greensborough
290 Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed (Victoria)
291 Shepherds, Rejoice
292t Happy Day
293t Ballerma
293b Saint Thomas
296 Sardinia
297 Conversion
298 Providence
299 New Jerusalem
300 Calvary
302 Greenland
304 Morgan
306 News From the Regions of the Skies (Oxford)
309 Living Lamb
310 The Weeping Saviour
311 Silver Street
313 Concord
314 Amherst
315 Worlds Above
327 Hatfield
336t Hester (1st, 2nd, 4th, & 5th Verses)
355 Hinder Me Not
357 God’s Eternal
371 Heavenly Dove
372 Mount Pleasant
395b Fleeting Days
409 Promised Day
418 Rees
419 Melancholy Day
423 Grantville
433 Rejoice
435 Sacred Rest
441 The Saint’s Delight
443 Beatrice
445t Hill of Zion
447t Boylston
450 Leaning on Jesus’ Breast
472 The Sinner’s Friend
477 Let the Saints Appear (1st Verse)
480 Leaning on Jesus’ Breast No. 2
489 Cooper (Jordan)
494 If Christ Be in My Arms (Grafton)
498t The Living Stone
507b The Glory of the Cross
541 I’m Going Home to Die No More
552 And Live Through Endless Day
553 The Hill of Zion
555 Praise the Redeemer (verses)
570 Our King Above the Sky

Wesley, Charles

40 Blow Ye the Trumpet (Lenox)
47b Idumea
48b Thou Man of Grief (Kedron)
77t The Child of Grace
88b Mount Zion
103 Animation
107b Jesus Loves My Soul
146 Hallelujah (1st & 2nd Verses)
207 Passing Away
243t Yarbrough
266b Lebanon (New)
270 Confidence
285t Arnold
286b Melody
308 Parting Friends
330t Love Divine
336b Haw Ridge
383 Eternal Day
389t Saint Peters
416b Vernon
428 World Unknown
451 Martin
475 Lover of the Lord
486 No Night on That Golden Shore
498b The Gospel Feast
536 Thy Love
556 A Prayerful Heart

White, Benjamin Franklin

90 Arise and Pray (Look Out)
92 The Glorious Light of Zion (Burk)

Williams, Helen Maria

143 Playel’s Hymn Second

Wood, H.

94 My Sands of Life (Mulberry Grove)

Young, Andrew

348t Happy Land

Young, Edward

235 The Resurrection (Easter Anthem)

Books as Poetry Sources

American Sunday School Psalmody

452 Elder

Baptist Harmony

115 The Midnight Cry
175 Star in the East

Baptist Hymn Book

356 Cheves

Battle’s Collection of Hymns

321 Man’s Redemption

Bever's Christian Songster

492 The Poor, Wayfaring Stranger (Wayfaring Stranger)

Bradbury's Orila

334 O Come Away!

Christian Harmony

240 The Christian’s Song

Charles’ Hymns and Spiritual Songs

470 There We Our Jesus Shall Adore (Sardis)
471 Come On, My Fellow Pilgrims

Christian Lyre

64 Refreshing Showers (Nashville)

Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs

42 Social Band (Clamanda)

Convert’s Companion

108t Weeping Sinners

Dobell’s New Selection

288 White
340 The Rock That Is Higher Than I
412 New Hosanna

Dover Selection

150 The Spiritual Sailor
213 The Good Old Way
376 Help Me to Sing

Dupuy’s Hymns and Spiritual Songs

159 Wondrous Love
204 Mission

Elliott’s Sacred Lyre

60 Saints Bound for Heaven

Hall’s New Collection

29b Entreaty (Liverpool)
215 New Topia
286t Saint’s Request
437 Ester

Holy Bible: II Samuel 18:33

239 David’s Lamentation

Holy Bible: Matthew 3:1-4

227 Baptismal Anthem

Holy Bible: Psalm 29:2; 96:11-13

230 Reverential Anthem

Holy Bible: Revelation 7:9, 4:8b, 8:13, 11:15a, 6:15-17

250 Heavenly Vision

Holy Bible: Song of Solomon 2:1-5,7-8,10-11

254 Rose of Sharon

Hymns & Spiritual Songs

69 Minister’s Farewell

Mead’s General Collection

87 Sweet Canaan
111t Journey Home
116 I Will Shout and Sing in Glory (1st Verse)
393b I’m On My Journey Home
397 We’ll Soon Be There

Sacred Melodeon

358 Murillo’s Lesson

Mercer’s Cluster

67 Columbus
104 The Lovely Story
360 The Royal Band
507t Jackson

New England Sunday School Hymn Book

414 Morning Sun

Providence Selection

76t Holiness
105t Saint Paul

Revival Melodies

122 All Is Well

Rippon’s Selection

72 Firm Foundation (Bellevue)
303 The Fountain

The Sacred Harp

406 New Harmony

Seaman's Devotional Assistant

329 Vain World, Adieu!

Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases

126 Babel’s Streams

Social and Campmeeting Songs

134 The Christian’s Hope
332 Sons of Sorrow
528b Peaceful Shore

Southern Harmony

196 Alabama
337 Mercy’s Free

Tate & Brady’s New Version

49t Old Hundred (1st verse)

Wirt's Impartial Selection of Hymns

323t Mullins

Young’s Christian Companion

165 Family Bible

Zion Songster

130 Millennium