Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Poetry of Hymns
    The Poetry of Hymns
    The Poetry of Hymns
    Ebook87 pages55 minutes

    The Poetry of Hymns

    By Ann Griffiths, Phyllis Wheatley and Herman Melville

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture have borne witness to hymns that change our emotions and fortify our spirit through life, death and celebrations and memorials of every type in between. Whether you are of a Christian faith or not, it is difficult to deny that these hymns create something stirring something magical which shouldn't be surprising when you hear the original poems. They speak with clarity and purpose, uplifting the heart and the soul, rejoicing God’s work and man’s pledge to do better in His eyes. But Hymns also have a wider duty to perform as there are many facets, themes and help on how to live lives as ourselves and appreciate each other as well as nature. In listening each of us can be swayed and persuaded on a number of levels.

    However many poets have called their work ‘a Hymn’ and have explored its theme and its definition, in different ways. They can be more irreverent and suggest that hymns can come not from churches but other places―even watermelon pavilions.

    One of the purposes of poems, of verse, of words, is to bring a subject into our view, imbue it with a little understanding and perhaps help us to confirm our opinions or hear in a way we might not have originally thought of it. Seeing and hearing through others can be a way to find more complex ripples of knowledge or to challenge what we hold and adjust that thinking.

    In this volume we bring you a wide range of Hymns from the religious and the devotional to the humane and the wonderful.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateNov 1, 2023
    ISBN9781835470596

    Related to The Poetry of Hymns

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Brightest Blessings!

      Dec 12, 2021

      Brightest Blessings!
      5 min read

    • Article

      Merry & bright

      Dec 11, 2023

      Merry & bright
      6 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Bells

      Oct 5, 2021

      Christmas Bells
      1 min read

    • Article

      Ilse Kleyn Prophetic Artist

      Jun 24, 2019

      Ilse Kleyn Prophetic Artist
      7 min read

    • Article

      RHYME & REASON

      May 17, 2021

      RHYME & REASON
      1 min read

    • Article

      Monday, August 19

      Jun 18, 2019

      ONE OF MY SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS was attending a weeklong Bible camp in Washington State with my two daughters and their husbands. Each morning, there was a program that included a chapel service that began with a half hour of singing. One morning, we san

      1 min read

    • Article

      Time For A Singalong

      Dec 14, 2020

      Time For A Singalong
      4 min read

    • Article

      Paul,

      Jul 1, 2020

      Houston, April 2019 The coarse and leafy stalks, like memory,Began to soften in my hands. The kaleMassaged with olive oil and salt. Silently, You sat on the couch as if in grisaille,Scrolling through the twitter of the state.A fragile, bluesy cover s

      14 min read

    • Article

      Sensual And Supple

      Mar 28, 2021

      Sensual And Supple
      2 min read

    • Article

      TELL ME A Story

      Mar 31, 2023

      TELL ME A Story
      21 min read

    • Article

      Poem Of The Week: Upon Wedlock, And The Death Of Children By Edward Taylor

      Jun 20, 2022

      Upon Wedlock, and the Death of Children A Curious Knot God made in Paradise,And drew it out inamled neatly Fresh.It was the True-Love Knot, more sweet than spiceAnd set with all the flowres of Graces dress.Its Weddens Knot, that ne’re can be unti’de.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      This poem is for everyperson who will neverread it either by choiceor circumstance I writeit in silence wherethe most realparts of our liveslive like a shoe lostin an alley or an emptyboat in a black sea butmore like the fallenleaf on the other sideo

      2 min read

    • Article

      Until The Sea Closed Over Us And The Light Was Gone

      Jul 1, 2020

      —Dante, Canto XXVI But if the truth is dreamed of toward the morning—El Paso Although it was really last summer’s song,all this summer Despacito played on as slower then I turned myself to gazeupon Juarez. The summer everything hurts my eyes, a dozen

      6 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2023

      Let’s be GodFor a moment, Shall we?That which invites Composition,That which is suspended From a great height,The presence Of approximationHeavy in the meadows, I’m not afraid,And yet My shroud vanishesIn these lines, I am so weptPast weeping, And wh

      1 min read

    • Article

      Richard Morrison

      Nov 29, 2022

      Since Christmas is traditionally a time for telling ghost stories, I have been thinking about the extent to which ghosts dominate the classical music world. I don’t mean the sort of flitting-through-closed-doors ghosts that are said to haunt old hall

      3 min read

    • Article

      Serenade At Sunrise

      Nov 25, 2023

      Serenade At Sunrise
      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘A Problematic Past’: How My New Piece Commemorates Amazing Grace

      Jul 20, 2023

      How do you commemorate something without celebrating it? It’s a question I found myself asking when faced with a recent commission, a request for a composition to mark the 250th anniversary of the sermon that became known as Amazing Grace. On the fac

      4 min read

    • Article

      Wytch Hazel

      Dec 7, 2023

      Wytch Hazel
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Song Starts In My Body

      Nov 1, 2022

      I wanted to see her body. I’m aware it sounds strange, even lurid. What I wanted was to see her read her poetry, and her body reading it. Something about Rukeyser’s writing made me feel that she was at home in her flesh, and I wanted to see her lovin

      21 min read

    • Article

      Preach To The Choir

      Jul 21, 2021

      Preach To The Choir
      3 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      The embers of a Thousand YearsUncovered by the HandThat fondled them when they were FireWill stir and understand——from Emily Dickinson’s “1383” Remember when we hurriedourselves into the evening’s sacral blaze: Our coal-covered bridal gownsdrenched i

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Poetry of Hymns

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Poetry of Hymns - Ann Griffiths

      !|ebook_preview_excerpt.htmlWnޗ8d/l1 %∶ Q^3EN[=݃<'$/ɩbVWW:u]w1v5n<+U}z㻟ٲN]9|swsÎQ N+r)CQ'"EɡjԁTC:6GS El8ȩ 6[IT6{RIbTɫFJNYAQ98ؙ`K6lDդS#Y}a%D%5@#rf%Z!Ϧ:EZw\+z.4E.=EKя NrInnԹu{T*ƶrk3P'Y/4z˸ab3ܰk| ͼјQ35>Κ-.z25'_޲[Luv3[oBy@4DTH-/$[Kb2,|CaD%9D|5\[$13-QT,!7[cs0.N~/p_5G8z%OGqjISml-N1Ѷqgx/o.s m=P;l]$a]i87fZk#j ,IuKg*Z!KngX cVeH!,n(Tq$3hoAk,ẮedyI|I媇&}tk`k`Ui2*\5 710R!9kHe`u}'$\\o2H E4o>0C^։T>*}Fo*N!1I~I4ѫ_r;Jzdzc|ѷJPh<[+J(5Vky!ҫe/ :ů^C?'^)tBk( #7QC=d8m^7 c$}}gm:37-g&rS lA)6^kP1_f _xXq/V>`;Fއƞռz'zn 2#h>fQ5Vۮa}h؈b@/B@L[{0Wᖺd3R]|=&q"ъ}) mx:^j8YK0W˱KeV^>ͩ{v*OvXs*վl6 uw]F2{ss7xsY?"fC_lY W3M׵n37YKEBFvOmUO[MH0l]JZeEiy¶}£N&8VA<˟ 7h^;M[
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1