George Wade Robinson (10 September 1838 – 23 January 1876) was a poet and

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Biography

Robinson was educated at

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, Dublin, and New College, St. John's Wood, London. He entered the congregational ministry and was co-pastor at York Street Chapel in Dublin with William Urwick the elder. He then became pastor at St. John's Wood, Dudley, and at Union Chapel, Union Street,

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. His best remembered poetry is in the hymn ''Loved with Everlasting Love'' with its chorus ''I am His and he His mine.'' He died in Southampton on 23 January 1876.

Writings

*''Loveland and other poems'' 1871 ASIN: B0017UX9LO *''Lays Of A Heart'' (1867) Kessinger Publishing Co (1 Oct 2008) *''The philosophy of the atonement & other sermons'' (Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. E.P. Dutton (1912) ASIN: B0008638BY *''Iona, and other sonnets, etc'' ASIN: B0017UVJ48

References

External links

* Listen to Robinson hymn

* Read Robinson's words

Irish poets 1838 births 1876 deaths 19th-century poets {{ireland-writer-stub