A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Cousin, Anne Ross

by John William Cousin

Cousin, Anne Ross (Cundell) (1824-1906).—Poetess, only dau. of D. R. Cundell, M.D., Leith, m. 1847 Rev. Wm. Cousin, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, latterly at Melrose. Some of her hymns, especially "The Sands of Time are sinking," are known and sung over the English-speaking world. A collection of her poems, Immanuel's Land and Other Pieces, was pub. in 1871! under her initials A. R. C., by which she was most widely known.