Charles Wesley wrote the prayerful hymn "A widow poor, forlorn, oppressed" as part of his extensive collection of scriptural verse. The piece was pulled directly from his original manuscript titled Hymns on the Four Gospels, which bears the date 1765.
The hymn was not published during Wesley's lifetime, remaining in manuscript form for over a century. It was first introduced to the public in the comprehensive collection The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, published between 1868 and 1872, where it was cataloged in volume XI on page 255.
Following this revival, the hymn gained wider denominational recognition when it was integrated into the Wesleyan Hymn Book in 1875. The editors placed it as Number 827, printing the text in its entirety without any alterations from the 1765 manuscript.
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