hymn

Nothing more than a reminder that the quotidian world around us can be a hymn all by itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

A hymn from around 1250 describes “bondes ben leid on Symeon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

If you want to find an observer singing from the same hymn sheet, sooner or later you will hit pay dirt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The wartime shortage of paper restricted his early efforts to the kitchen floor and hymn books in church.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

“It’s a morbid hymn, for funerals. No one plays a funeral hymn loud unless they want to wake the dead.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

At a municipal center, a choir of about a hundred faithful practices hymns for the ceremony.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

He also used AI to do the call to worship, the prayers, and to write new hymns complete with AI-generated music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The holy scripture contains the hymns and teachings of the Sikh Gurus, along with compositions by saint-poets from different spiritual traditions.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

From every camp come hymns to the principle of free passage without saying how to uphold it in present circumstances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Generose pressed Play on the VCR, and the screen came to life with the blurry images of a Catholic choir from Congo, singing hymns outdoors against changing backdrops of mountains and green forests.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

After living for two years in a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, he hymned the results in his classic account Walden, published in 1854.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

That has changed, or has seemed to change, recently, with Marine taking on a group of surreptitious haute-fonctionnaire “Horaces”—the name is a reference to the great if obsequious Roman poet who hymned the emperor Augustus.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2017

Happiness, as hymned in these renditions, would never be won easily.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2016

He first cropped up on the opening track of 2010's award-winning Queen of Denmark, hymned as Grant's "one and only".

From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2013

Indeed, all of them then hymned the praises of the slayer of Madhu with words whose meanings were adorned with the eternal Riks.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Holst leaves the listener in the far removes of outer space, with Neptune being a study in musical mysticism, highlighted by a hidden hymning women’s chorus, as if heard from a mysterious distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

And the poet and theorist Fred Moten, for his hymning of knowledge’s “undercommons,” its deviant intellectual crosscurrents and flight-paths, “fugitive enlightenment.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

It’s a two-hander, also featuring Zach Wyatt, appropriately exploring isolation and also hymning the wisdom of Walt Whitman.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2020

Bush went beyond hymning the “thousand points of light” to oversee the establishment of the Commission on National and Community Service.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2018

And catch soft floatings from a faint-heard hymning;

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin