Joseph Swain (poet)

Joseph Swain (1761 – 14 April 1796) was a British Baptist minister, poet and hymnwriter.

He experienced a religious conversion in 1782, and was baptised by John Rippon in the Baptist meeting-house in Carter Lane, Tooley Street, Southwark, on 11 May 1783.

He was also a writer of devotional poems and hymns, many of which remained popular through the 19th century, although now largely forgotten.

A version of his hymn "My Song in the Night" was included on the album Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing released by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in 2009.

His headstone, recovered from its original site following bomb damage in World War II, is now located in the paved "broadwalk" in the middle of the burial ground, next to the obelisk to Daniel Defoe and the headstone to William Blake.