hymn
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Caedmon then miraculously composed the hymn, producing a carefully crafted poem praising God for creating the world.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
Two years later, near the end of my training, I was sitting in church, listening to the choir sing something beautiful, though I do not recall the precise hymn.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
Their presence may allude to the hymn “Panis Angelicus,” or “bread of angels,” written by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century as a poetic reference to the presence of Christ in the consecrated host.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
His hymn to Aten is an exercise in majesty, an ode not just to the sun but to the expanses in which our solar system circulates.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; “A long time ago” came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing hymn
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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