Read full poem →When for chant of Greeks the wail of Galileans
Made the whole world moan with hymns of wrath and wrong.
Yea, not yet we see thee, father, as they saw thee,
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Poetry examples for “hymns”
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Read full poem →Silent and winter-killed I stand,
No carol hymns my debt to you;
But take this frozen thought in lieu,
Read full poem →And the giddy Stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.
Read full poem →And the giddy stars (so legends tell)
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.
Read full poem →_Colin Clout's Come Home Again_, 1595 Shakespeare's _King John_.
_Amoretti, Epithalamion, Hymns_ 1595 Johnston's _Seven Champions
of Christendom._
Read full poem →They shook the depths of the desert's gloom
With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Read full poem →Sanderson sings psalms to his own music; Ken
warbles hymns before he sleeps ; Herbert delights
to set anthems to his lute ; and Wotton bequeaths
Read full poem →I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush
Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound
With joy; and, often an intruding guest,
Read full poem →The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love;
Read full poem →With those just Spirits that wear victorious palms,
Hymns devout and holy psalms 15
Singing everlastingly:
