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Ebenezer Elliott

Ebenezer Elliott
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Short Name: Ebenezer Elliott
Full Name: Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849
Birth Year: 1781
Death Year: 1849

Elliott, Ebenezer, commonly known as the "Corn Law Rhymer," was born near Rotherham, Yorkshire, 1781, and died at Barnsley, in the same county, in 1849. The greater part of his life was spent in Sheffield, where he was engaged in the iron trade, and it was in a Sheffield newspaper that many of his poetical pieces first appeared.

He published:—
(1) Night, a Descriptive Poem, 1818. (2) The Village Patriarch, 1829. (3) Corn Law Rhymes, 1831. (4) Poems, 1834 ; and (5) More Prose and Verse, 1850.
A piece or two from these works have been adapted as hymns in some Unitarian Collections. They include "Another year is swallowed by the sea," for the old and new year.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Ebenezer Elliott (8)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Another year is swallowed by the seaEbenezer Elliott (Author)3
何時神纔救平民？Ebenezer Elliott (Author)Chinese2
Idler, why lie down to dieEbenezer Elliott (Author)2
Land of the men who brought beforeEbenezer Elliott (Author)1
Like a rootless rose or lilyEbenezer Elliott (Author)1
Right, men who make their beingEbenezer Elliott (Author)1
Sabbath holy, to the lowlyE. Elliott (Author)English2
When wilt Thou save the people?Ebenezer Elliott (Author)English129
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