RPO -- Selected Poetry of Robert Lowry (1826-1899)

Selected Poetry of Robert Lowry (1826-1899)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Shall we gather at the river
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God?
(Beautiful River, 1-4)

Beautiful River

Notes on Life and Works

Robert Lowry, born March 12, 1826, graduated in 1854 from the University of Lewisburg (Bucknell University) and became a baptist minister in West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, and Brooklyn before rejoining Lewisburg in 1869 as a faculty member and then its chancellor. From 1875 to 1885 he was Pastor to Park Avenue Baptist Church, and from 1880 to 1886 President of the New Jersey Baptist School Union. He composed many hymns, among which the popular "Beautiful River" has survived. Married, with three sons, he died in Plainfield, New Jersey, on November 23, 1899.

Biographical information

Given name: Robert
Family name: Lowry
Birth date: 12 March 1826
Death date: 25 November 1899
Nationality: American
Education: University at Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) to 1854
Literary period: Realistic
Occupation: Minister
Residences
New York city
Plainfield, New Jersey to 1899
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Buried at: Hillside Cemetery, Plainfield, New Jersey