Born: June 18, 1819, Portland, Maine. Died: October 3, 1892, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Samuel was the younger brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Samuel attended both Harvard College and Cambridge Divinity School. Ordained a Unitarian minister, he served churches in Fall River, Massachusetts (1848); Brooklyn, New York (1853); and Germantown, Pennsylvania (1860). His works include:

• A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, 1846, jointly edited with Samuel Johnson. This collection was enlarged and revised in 1846.
• Thalatta: a Book for the Seaside, with T. W. Higginson, 1853
• Vespers, 1859
• Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 (jointly edited with Samuel Johnson)
• The Life of Henry Wadsworth Long­fel­low, 1886

Hymns:

1. Again, as Evening’s Shadow Falls
2. Beneath the Shadow of the Cross
3. Bless Thou the Gifts Our Hands Have Brought
4. Father, Give Thy Benediction
5. Go Forth to Life, O Child of Earth
6. God of Ages and of Nations
7. God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea!
8. God’s Trumpet Wakes the Slumbering World
9. Holy Spirit, Source of Gladness
10. Holy Spirit, Truth Divine
11. I Look to Thee in Every Need
12. In the Beginning Was the Word
13. Light of Ages and of Nations
14. Love for All, and Can It Be?
15. Loving Friend to All Who Bowed, The
16. Now, on Land and Sea Descending
17. Now with Creation’s Morning Song
18. O God, in Whom We Live and Move
19. O God, Thou Giver of All Good
20. O God, Thy Children Gathered Here
21. O Life That Makest All Things New
22. O Still in Accents Sweet and Strong
23. O Thou Whose Liberal Sun and Rain
24. One Holy Church of God Appears
25. Out of the Dark, the Circling Sphere
26. Peace, Peace on Earth!
27. Thou Lord of Life, Our Saving Health
28. ’Tis Winter Now, the Fallen Snow
29. Voice by Jordan’s Shore, A