John Mason Neale

John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter.

• All glory, laud, and honour
     To Thee, Redeemer, King!
  To Whom the lips of children
     Made sweet Hosannas ring.
  • "All Glory, Laud and Honour", st. 1 (1851)

    See also: Theodulf of Orléans, Gloria, laus et honor

• Good King Wenceslas look'd out
    On the Feast of Stephen,
  When the snow lay round about,
    Deep, and crisp, and even.
  • "Good King Wenceslas", st. 1 (1853)

• Bring me flesh, and bring me wine,
    Bring me pine-logs hither.
  • "Good King Wenceslas", st. 3

• In his master’s steps he trod,
    Where the snow lay dinted;
  Heat was in the very sod
    Which the Saint had printed.
  • "Good King Wenceslas", st. 5

• Brief life is here our portion,
     Brief sorrow, short-lived care:
  The Life that knows no ending,
     The tearless Life, is there.
  • "Brief Life is Here Our Portion", st. 1 (1851; rev. 1858)

• Jerusalem the golden!
     With milk and honey blest,
  Beneath thy contemplation
     Sink heart and voice opprest:
  I know not, oh, I know not
     What joys await us there;
  What radiancy of glory,
     What light beyond compare.
  • "Jerusalem the Golden", sts. 1 and 2 (1851; rev. 1858)

    Variants: 'What social joys are there,' · 'bliss' for 'light'
    See also: Bernard of Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi

• O come, O come, Emmanuel,
  And ransom captive Israel.
  • "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel", st. 1 (1861)