幼い頃に孤児となったヘンリー・フランシス・ライトは、アイルランドのダブリンにあるトリニティカレッジに通い、英詩で頭角を現した。1815年に牧師となり、アイルランドと英国西部の多くの教区で仕えた。しかしその経歴の大半は、英国デボンシャー州ロウワー・ブリックハムのオール・セインツ教会の牧師であった。彼は宗教詩と讃美歌詩の2冊の本を書いた。 Poems Chiefly Religious, 1833 & 1845 The Spirit of the Psalms, 1834
作詞作品： Abide with Me Above Me Hangs the Silent Sky Adore, My Soul, the Lord Again, O Lord, I Ope Mine Eyes All People Who on Earth Do Dwell All Seeing God, to Thee Is Known Arise O God, Let All thy Foes As Firm as Zion’s rock Are They As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams As Thirsts the Wild Deer in the Chase Assert Thy Claims, O God! At Every Time, in Every Place Awake, My Soul, Awake and Sing Awful Is Thy Voice, O God Be Glorified, O Lord! Be Merciful to Us, O God Before Jehovah’s Awful Throne Behold Yon Flower, It Springs, It Blooms Blessed Be the Mighty Lord! Blest Is the Heart Enlarged by Grace Blest Is the Man, How Blest Blest Is the Man, Who Fears and Flies Blest Is the Man Who Knows the Lord Blest Is the Man Whose Spirit Shares Blest Is the Penitent, Who Feels By Babel’s Waters, Dark and Wide Captive Long ’Neath Sense and Sin, A Cast Not, O Lord, Thy Church Away! Christians, Are the Words You Speak Church of God Below, The Come, Let Us to Jehovah Raise Come to His Presence with Song and Love Correct Us, Lord, We Know It Good Could I, O Lord, So Faithless Be Dark Was My Lot, and Long It Spurned Earth Is All Thine Own, O Lord Exalt, O God, Thy Glorious Son! Exalted Jesus, Heavenly King Fair, O Lord, Thy Dwellings Are Far from My Heavenly Home Father, We Hail the Word of Grace For Thee, O Lord, Our Constant Praise From Deep Distress to Thee I Cry From Depths of Woe to God I Cry From Thee, O Lord, I Came at First Gently, Gently Lay Thy Rod Give Glory to the Lord Glorious Shepherd of the Sheep Glory and Praise to Jehovah on High God in His Church Is Known God Is Our Refuge, Tried and Proved God Is the Judge, and God Alone God of All My Righteousness God of Glory, God of Might God of Mercy, God of Grace God of My Righteousness God of the Seasons, Come Again Good It Is to Praise the Lord Great Is the Lord, His Praise Be Great! Great Source of All My Being Hail to Another Year Happy the Man, Whose Tender Care Haste, O Lord, My Spirit Faints Have Mercy, Lord, on Me Have Mercy on Me, Lord! Hear, O Lord, Our Supplication Heaven Speaks Thy Glory, Lord Heavens Declare Thy Glories, Lord, The Help, Lord, the Godly Fail! High Above Created Things How Blest Are Thy Who Fear to Walk How Blest the Man Who Fears the Lord How Good, How Faithful, Lord, Art Thou! How Long, My God, the God of Grace How Long, O God of Grace How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me, Lord? How Many, Lord, My Fall Have Sought Humble, Lord, My Haughty Spirit “I Come, I Come,” the Savior Cries I Love the Lord, I’ll Love Him Now I Love the Lord, the Gracious Lord I Sing of Judgment and of Grace I Waited Suppliant on the Lord In Deep Distress to God I Prayer In Loftier Mood of Loftier Things In Tears and Trials We Must Sow In Thee, O Lord, My Trust I Place In This Wide, Weary World of Care In Vain the Powers of Darkness Try It Comes, the Awful Hour Jehovah Reigns, Enthroned in State Jehovah Speaks, Let Earth Be Awed Jehovah to MessiahSaid Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken （別名：Church of God, by Christ’s Salvation （別名：Jesus, We Our Cross Have Taken （別名：Know, My Soul, Thy Full Salvation （別名：Lo! We Have Left All （別名：Savior, I My Cross Have Taken （別名：Take, My Soul, Thy Full Salvation Judge Me, O Lord, and Try My Heart Judge Me, O Lord, to Thee I Fly Judgment’s Awful Hour Is Past Leaves Around Me Falling, The Let All the World in Joyful Throngs Living Lord, My Shepherd Is, The Lone Amidst the Dead and Dying Long Did I Toil Lord, a Thousand Foes Surround Us Lord, at Thy Feet I Bow Lord, at Thy Feet Our Thanks We Pay Lord, Be Merciful to Me Lord God of My Salvation Lord Hath Builded for Himself, The Lord, Hear My Prayer, in Mercy Hear Lord, Hear Our Sabbath Song of Praise Lord Himself, the Mighty Lord, The Lord, I Adore Thee, All My Heart Lord, I Am Thine, Brought into Life Lord, I Have Sinned, but O Forgive Lord, I Look for All to Thee Lord, I Pray with Confidence Lord, I Will Praise Thee Lord, I Would Stand with Thoughtful Eye Lord, in Our Hearts the Feelings Read Lord in Trouble Hear Thee, The Lord Is Great, and Greatly Ought, The Lord Is King, Let Earth Be Glad, The Lord Is on His Throne Again, The Lord Is on His Throne on High, The Lord Is on Our Side, the Lord Is Our Refuge, The Lord, My God, in Thee I Trust Lord, My Spirit Flies to Thee Lord My Strong Salvation Is, The Lord of Heaven to Earth Is Come, The Lord of My Life, My Hopes, My Joys Lord of the Realms Above Lord, the Heaven Thy Glory Speaks Lord, Thou Art Good, I Know It Well Lord, Thou Art Love Divine! Lord, Thou Hast Ever Heard My Cry Lord, Thou Hast Heard My Prayer Lord, Thou Hast Set Thy People Free Lord, Thy Best Blessings Shed Lord, ’Tis a Pleasant Thing to Raise Lord, to Our Prayer Attend Lord, We Have Heard Our Fathers Tell Lord, What a World of Sense and Sin Lord Who Died on Earth for Men, The Low in the Dust, O Lord, We Lie Low in Thy Holy House Mercies of My God and King, The My God, My King, Thy Praise I Sing My God, What Monuments I See My Heart Its God Would Sing My Help Comes Down from God Above My Hiding Place, My Refuge Tower My Rest Is in Heaven My Savior, How Thy Soul Was Awed My Soul, Bless the Lord My Soul with Patience Waits My Spirit on Thy Care My Trust Is in the Lord No Change of Times Shall Ever Shock “No God for Me!” The Fool Exclaims Not unto Us, Almighty Lord O Bless the Lord, the Gracious Lord O Come, Loud Anthems Let Us Raise O God, My Gracious God, to Thee O God, My Spirit Sinks Again O God of Glory, God of Grace O God of Glory, Wake! O God of Hosts, the Mighty Lord O God of Love, How Blest Are They O God of Love, My God Thou Art O God of Mercy, Hear My Cry O God of Truth and Grace O God, We Lift Our Souls to Thee O Had I, My Savior, the Wings of a Dove O Hear My Supplication, Lord! O How Blest the Congregation O How Safe, How Happy He O Israel’s Shepherd, Joseph’s Guide O Let the People of the Lord O Lift Your Hearts! O Tune Your Tongues! O Lord, How Good, How Great Art Thou O Lord, How Infinite Thy Love O Lord, How Lovely Is the Place O Lord, I Am but Sinful Dust O Lord, Why Hidest Thou Thy Face O My God, the God of Grace O Plead My Cause, Blest Savior, Plead O Praise the Lord, for He Is Good O Praise the Lord in That Blest Place O Praise the Lord, the God of Grace O Praise the Lord, ’Tis Sweet to Raise O Praise the Lord, Ye Nations, Pour O Praise the Lord, Ye Saints of His! O Praise Ye the Lord, with Heart and with Voice O Pray We All for Salem’s Peace O Render Thanks, and Bless the Lord O Render Thanks to God Above O That Day of Dread and Wonder O That the Lord’s Salvation O Thou, to Whom All Creatures Bow O Thou Whom Thoughtless Men Condemn O What a Conquest Jesus Won Of Every Earthly Stay Bereft Omniscient God, Thy Eye Divine On God I’ve Called in Trouble’s Hour On God, on God My Soul Relies Our Hearts Shall Bless Thee, O Most High Our Hearts Shall Praise Thee, God of Love Pilgrims Here on Earth and Strangers Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above Powers of Earth and Hell Combine, The Praise for Thee, Lord, in Zion Waits Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven Praise the Lord, God’s Glories Show Praise the Lord, My Soul Shall Praise Him Praise the Lord, Ye Hosts on High Praise to God on High Be Given Praise Ye the Lord, Her God to Praise Praise Ye the Lord, His Servants, Raise Praise Ye the Lord, My Spirit Glows Praises of the Lord, The Preserve Me, Lord, from Those Rebuke Us, Father, but in Love Redeemed from Guilt, Redeemed from Fears Redemption’s Holy Work Was Done Rise, King of Glory, Rise! Save Me by Thy Glorious Name Save Me, Lord, the Waters Roll Seaman on the Swelling Seas, The Shepherd of Israel, God of Grace Shout, Ye People, Clap Your Hands Show Mercy, Mercy, King of Kings! Sing Praises to the Lord Sing to the Lord a New Made Song Sing to the Lord, His Praises Sound Sing to the Lord, His Triumphs Tell Sing to the Lord Our Might Sing to the Risen Lord! Son of Man Is Gone on High, The Stranger and Pilgrim Here Below Support Me, Lord, My Hope Thou Art Sweet Is the Solemn Voice That Calls Teach Us, O Lord, How Brief Our Date That Man Is Blest Who Stands in Awe Thee Will I Praise, My God, My King There Is a Safe and Secret Place This Spacious Earth Is All the Lord’s Thou Art, Thou Wert, O Lord Thou Know’st Me, Lord Through All the Changing Scenes of Life Through Foes and Danger, Sin and Death Thy Earthly Dwellings, Lord, Are Fair Thy Goodness and Thy Truth Thy Gracious Ear, O Lord, Incline Thy Mercies, Lord, Shall Be My Song Thy Mercy, Lord, the Sinner’s Hope Thy Mercy, Lord, to us Extend Thy Promise, Lord, Is Perfect Peace ’Tis a Pleasant Thing to See ’Tis He! ’Tis He! The Son of God! ’Tis Thine, O Father, to Assign To Bless Thy Chosen Race To My Complaint, O Lord, My God To Thee, O Lord, in Deep Distress To Zion’s Hill I Lift Mine Eyes Unto Thee I Lift Mine Eyes Uphold Me, Lord, Too Prone to Stray Vain Were All Our Toil and Labor Well Thy Works Proclaim Thee, Lord When at Thy Footstool, Lord, I Bend When Bursts the Soul Its Earthly Chains When Earthly Joys Glide Fast Away When Hope Is Low, and Faith Is Weak When Israel Forth from Bondage Passed When Jesus to My Rescue Came When Sinks My Heart in Gloom and Grief When We, Our Wearied Limbs to Rest While Foes on Me with Envy Gaze Who Place on Zion’s God Their Trust Whom Shall I Fear? The Living God Whom Should I Fear, Since God to Me Whom Should We Love Like Thee? Why Do the People Rage? Why Hast Thou Cast Us Off, O Lord? Why Should I Fret Though Sinners Thrive? Wilt Thou Return to Me, O Lord? With Humble Lord, and Holy Fear With Joy We Hail the Sacred Day With One Consent Let All the Earth Within Thy Courts, Before Thy Face Within Thy Sacred Gates Again Word of God, in Mercy Given Ye Distant Lands, in God Rejoice Ye Realms of Light and Love Ye Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice Ye Saints and Servants of the Lord Ye That Love the Savior’s Name Yes, God Is Righteous, God Is Good
