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Romanization. Shikyō. The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally ...
United Kingdom. Isaac Watts. Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (also known as Divine and Moral Songs for Children and other similar titles) is a collection of didactic, moral poetry for children by Isaac Watts, first published in 1715. [1] Though Watts's hymns are now better known than these poems, Divine Songs was ...
New Room, Bristol. Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788) was an English Anglican cleric and a principal leader of the Methodist movement. Wesley was a prolific hymnwriter who wrote over 6,500 hymns during his lifetime. [2] His works include "And Can It Be", "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing", "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today ...
The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. [a] The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on Mount Olympus, or the establishment of their cult.
The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Poetry is often closely related to musical traditions, and the earliest poetry exists in the form of hymns (such as Hymn to the Death of Tammuz), and other types of song such as chants.
Folio 129r of the early eleventh-century Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 43, showing a page of Bede's Latin text, with Cædmon's Hymn added in the lower margin. Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator.
A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. [ 1 ] The word hymn derives from Greek ὕμνος (hymnos), which means "a song of praise". [ 2 ]
Z 130, Hymn, "Ah! few and full of sorrow" (c. 1680) Z 131, Hymn, "Beati omnes [qui timent Dominum]" (c. 1680) Z 132, Hymn, "Early, O Lord, my fainting soul" (c. 1680) Z 133, Hymn, "Hear me, O Lord, the great support" (1680–82) Z 134, Hymn, "In guilty night" (published 1693) Z 135, Hymn, "Jehova, quam multi sunt [hestes]" (c. 1680)