Making Poetry -- by Frances Ridley Havergal

Poems By Frances Ridley Havergal

Making Poetry
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Will you seek it? Will you brave it?
‘Tis a strange and solemn thing,
Learning long before your teaching,
Listening long before your preaching,
Suffering before you sing.
And the songs that echo longest,
Deepest, fullest, truest, strongest,
With your life-blood you will write.
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Frances Ridley Havergal 1836-1879

Francis Ridley Havergal was born December14, 1836, in Astley, England and died 3 June 1879, in Oystermouth, Glamorganshire, Wales. The youngest child of a pastor, she is recognized as one of the most gifted and popular female hymn-writers in England in the last half of the nineteenth century. She was an avid student of the Bible and committed to memory the entire New Testament, the Psalms, Isaiah, and the minor prophets. Her Poetical Works were published in 1884.
Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology says, "her poems are permeated with the fragrance of her passionate love of Jesus."

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