A wide­ly tra­veled poet and hymn­ist, But­ter­worth was for 25 years con­nect­ed with the Youth’s Com­pan­ion as a reg­u­lar con­trib­ut­or and mem­ber of its ed­i­tor­i­al staff. His works in­clude:

• Story of the Hymns (Amer­i­can Tract So­ci­e­ty, 1875)
• Zigzag Jour­neys in Eur­ope, 1879
• The Pray­ers of His­to­ry, 1880
• Poe­ms for Christ­mas, East­er, and New Year, 1883
• Zigzag Jour­neys in North­ern Lands, 1884
• Wonderful Christ­mas of Old, 1885
• Story of the Tunes, 1890
• The Log School-House on the Co­lum­bia, 1890
• A Bud­get of Christ­mas Tales by Charles Dick­ens and Others, 1895
• True to His Home, 1897
• In The Boy­hood of Lin­coln, 1898
• Little Sky-High, 1901

• Brown, pp. 186-7
• Julian, p. 1555

1. Bird with the Brok­en Wing, The
2. Little Ones of God Are We
3. O Church! Arise and Sing
4. Under the Cross, Fare­well