Henry Lyte

Henry Francis Lyte (1 June 1793 – 20 November 1847) was a Scottish Anglican divine, hymnodist and poet.

Works
Lyte's first composition was Tales in Verse illustrative of Several of the Petitions in the Lord's Prayer (1826), It was written at Lymington and commended by John Wilson in the Noctes Ambrosianae. Lyte next published Poems called Religious (1833), and in 1834, a small collection of psalms and hymns called The Spirit of the Psalms.

After his death, a volume of Remains (1850) with a memoir was made. Three of Lyte's best-known hymns are paraphrases of psalms, published in The Spirit of the Psalms: "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven" (Psalm 103), "God of Mercy, God of Grace" (Psalm 67), and "Pleasant are thy courts above" (Psalm 84).David Robertson, "Henry Francis Lyte". "The Spirit of the Psalms," edited by William Holmes, was republished in 2020.

Lyte's best known hymns are:
 Abide with me! fast falls the eventide
 Jesus, I my cross have taken
 Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven
 Pleasant are Thy courts above.

References

Other websites



 Text, MIDI, and piano score from HymnSite.com

 Catalogue of the library of H.F. Lyte
 Heaven Will Bring Me Sweeter Rest: Selected works of Henry Francis Lyte

Category:British Christian hymnwriters
Category:Anglican priests
Category:1793 births
Category:1847 deaths