Mrs. Vokes

Short Name: Mrs. Vokes
Full Name: Vokes, Mrs. (See also Draper, B. H. (Bourne Hall))

Pseudonym. See also Draper, B. H. (Bourne Hall), 1775-1843)

Votes, Mrs . A long correspondence has failed to elicit any information concerning this hymn-writer beyond the facts that the earliest work in which her hymns are found is a Selection of Missionary and Devotional Hymns, edited by the Rev. J. Griffin, a Congregational minister at Portsea, and published in 1797. Several of these were repeated in J. Dobell's New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns, &c, 1806. There are also 7 of her hymns, all with the signature "Mrs. Vokes," in W. B. Collyer's Collection, 1812. Of her hymns the following, all published in 1797, are still in common use:—
1. Behold the expected time draws near. Missions.
2. Behold the heathen waits to know. Missions. This begins with st. iii. of No. 1.
3. Proud Babylon yet waits her doom. Fall of Babylon predicted.
4. Ye messengers of Christ. Missions.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Vokes, Mrs., p. 1227, i. Other hymns attributed to Mrs. Vokes, but not satisfactorily authenticated, are:—
1. Hasten, O Lord, that happy time. Missions.
2. Soon may [shall] the last glad song arise. Second Advent.
3. When shall the last bright song arise. An altered form of No. 2.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


Texts by Mrs. Vokes (21)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Ye messengers of ChristMrs. Vokes (Author)English137
Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaimMrs. Vokes (Author)English14
'Tis in the mount the Lord is seenMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Thy people, Lord, who trust thy wordMrs. Vokes (Author)English36
Sovereign of worlds, display Thy powerMrs. Voke (Author)English23
Soon may the last glad song ariseMrs. Vokes (Author)English176
Proud Babylon yet waits her doom, Nor can her tottering palace fallVoke (Author)English9
No time to waste in slumberMrs. V. (Author)3
My raptured soul in hope rejoicesMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Lo another Sabbath morningMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Lo Abram warned of oldMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Let thrones, and powers, and kingdoms beMrs. Vokes (Author)English2
Leaning on thy paternal breastMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Jesus, the triumphs of thy crossMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Hasten, O Lord, that happy timeMrs. Vokes (Author)English3
Go, saith the voice of heavenly loveMrs. Vokes (Author)5
Go, friends of Jesus, and proclaimVoke (Author)English13
Exert thy power, thy rights maintainVoke (Author)English38
Come, O come to Jesus, Why will ye stayMrs. Vokes (Author)2
Behold the heathen waits to knowMrs. Voke (Author)English46
Behold, the expected time draw nearMrs. Vokes (Author)English46

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