"I would have gone; God bade me stay" [music unspecified]

"I would have gone; God bade me stay" [music unspecified]

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1884 [copyright] [publication]

London: Elliot Stock

genre: hymn|song

chorus: congregational singing

Rossetti poem(s): "Weary in Well-Doing"

Setting with unspecified music

Notes: From the 1884 hymnal, "Congregational Hymns," compiled by W. Garrett Horder. Ives notes that "[a]pparently Horder did not ask Rossetti's permission to be included in the hymnal, as she wrote to him after publication: 'It really gratifies me to see my few lines in your Hymnal: so the result is exactly the same as if you had applied betimes' (20 May 1885; Letters 3: 264)" (Ives DH6). Ives also indicates that it was "Reprinted in the second volume of Horder's The Treasury of Hymns (London: Elliot Stock, 11896])" (Ives DH6).

Format 1: lyrics

In reference to the published works below: Ives DH6

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-weary-musicunspecified

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