Jesu dulcis memoria is a Christian hymn often attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
The name can refer either to the entire poem, which, depending on the manuscript, ranges from forty-two to fifty-three stanzas, or only the first part.
Several English hymns sung today are based on translations of Jesu dulcis memoria.
It has also been set to music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and others.
[2] Alan Gray's 1928 anthem What are these that glow from afar?, composed in memory of his two sons lost in the war, uses a quotation from Jesu dulcis memoria to great effect.