Author:James Montgomery (1771-1854)

James Montgomery
(1771–1854)

James Montgomery

Works

• Prison Amusements (1797)
• The Wanderer of Switzerland (1806)
• The West Indies (1809)
• The World before the Flood (1812)
• Greenland (1819)
• The Pelican Island (1828)

Poems

• A Field Flower
• "Home" in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1656)
• The Joy of Grief
• Robert Burns
• "Night" in Forget Me Not for 1824 (1823) (transcription project)
• "A Riddle, Written in an Album" in Forget Me Not for 1826 (1825) (transcription project)

Collected poems

• The West Indies, and other Poems (1807) djvu
• Greenland and other Poems (1819)

Hymns

• "Angels, from the Realms of Glory", 1816
• "For ever with the Lord"
• "Hail to the Lord's Anointed"
• "In the Hour of Trial", 1834
• "Prayer is the Soul's sincere Desire"
• "The Stranger and His Friend" (A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief)

Works about Montgomery

• "Montgomery, James (1771-1854)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Montgomery, James," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)