Josiah G. Holland

Josiah G. Holland
From Cyberhymnal
Short Name: Josiah G. Holland
Full Name: Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert), 1819-1881
Birth Year: 1819
Death Year: 1881

Holland, Josiah Gilbert, was born at Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819. He was for some time on the staff of the Springfield Republican, and became in 1870 the editor of Scribner's Magazine. He has written several successful books, and some poetical pieces. One of the latter, "For summer's bloom, and autumn's blight" (Praise in and through all things), was included, from Bitter Sweet, 1858, in the Boston Unitarian Hymn [and Tune] Book for the Church & Home, 1868. He died Oct. 12, 1881.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Holland, J. G. , p. 529, ii. His Christmas Carol, “There's a star in the sky," from The Marble Prophecy and other Poems, 1872, is included in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905. He died Oct. 12, 1881. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 – October 12, 1881) was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter-Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others.

Texts by Josiah G. Holland (13)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Cantan ángeles mil, brilla estrella de pazJosiah G. Holland (Author)Spanish5
Day will return with a fresher boonJosiah Gilbert Holland (Author)English3
Ein Gesang in der LuftJosiah G. Holland (Author)German2
For summer's bloom and autumn's blightHolland (Author)English3
Heaven is not reached by a single boundJosiah G. Holland (Author)English3
Hither, sleep, a mother wants theeDr. J. G. Holland (Author)English3
I count this thing to be grandly trueJosiah G. Holland (Author)English2
Isi añgin mañgegJosiah G. Holland (Author)Tagalog2
Песьня ў небе гудзе, зь неба сьвеціць зараJosiah G. Holland (Author)Belarusian2
Suena ya la canciónJosiah G. Holland (Author)Spanish2
The day is quenched, and the sun is fledJosiah Gilbert Holland (Author)English2
There's a song in the air! There's a star in the sky!Josiah G. Holland, 1819-1881 (Author)English194
Un arrullo escuchadJosiah G. Holland (Author)Spanish3

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