There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena.

Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers in 400 – 399 BC singing to Poseidon a paean — a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.

* Phormio: An admiral who had secured Athenian control of the sea early in the war, he probably died just before The Knights was produced and he is mentioned here in a hymn to Poseidon ( line 562 ).

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

In addition to seven original songs, the album included three covers: " Lilac Wine ", based on the version by Nina Simone ; " Corpus Christi Carol ", from Benjamin Britten's A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, a composition that Buckley was introduced to in high school, based on a 15th century hymn ; and " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen, based on John Cale's recording from the Cohen tribute album, I'm Your Fan.

The poetry was later set to the music of another Christian hymn, " My Redeemer " by James McGranahan, and included in Latter-day Saint hymnals, including the current one.

These traits included the assignment of the melody to the tenors, harmonic structure emphasizing fourths and fifth, and the distinction between the ordinary four-part hymn (" plain tune "), the anthem, and the fuging tune.

Ralph Vaughan Williams suggested that a congregational hymn be included.

Congregational singing was given further impetus with the arrival of the temperance movement, which saw the Temperance Choral Union ( formed in 1854 ) organising annual singing festivals, these included hymn singing by combined choirs.

Holst harmonised the tune to make it usable as a hymn, which was included in Songs of Praise in 1926 with the same words, but the tune was then called Thaxted ( named after the village where Holst lived for many years ).

In 1906 Vaughan Williams included Tallis's Third Mode Melody in the English Hymnal, which he was then editing, as the melody for Joseph Addison's hymn When Rising from the Bed of Death.

By contrast, in the Roman Rite this hymn is not included in the Liturgy of the Hours, but is sung or recited in the Mass, after the Kyrie, on Sundays outside of Lent and Advent and on solemnities and feasts.

Also included in the soundtrack is an instrumental version of Marks ' setting of the Christmas hymn " I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.

The Croziers ' business enterprises included a printing company, Crozier & Barton, which had published hymn books as early as 1825, and thus may have inspired the Swans to publish their own collection of songs.

Marcus Swan kept much of the material from The Harp of Columbia, but also included several tunes by popular hymn composer Lowell Mason and several of his own compositions.

" The Spirit of God ," is included as the very first hymn and it is set to the tune Hosanna, which is the same tune used today — although the notes in the refrain differ slightly from modern editions, and it contained only soprano and bass instead of the four parts typical of modern editions.

* The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning-Arguably the most popular Latter Day Saint hymn included as a last minute addition to the hymnal

" Adam-ondi-Ahman " ( originally " This Earth Was Once a Garden Place ") is an LDS hymn and was included in the first Latter Day Saint hymnal and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the early church.

The hymnal included the first printing of several arrangements and hymn settings by Vaughan Williams.

Judy Collins included the hymn on her 1970 Album Whales & Nightingales.

By the 1840s she was already known as a hymn writer and her compositions were soon included in Church of Ireland hymnbooks.

Some hymns to Mary are also included in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymnal, e. g. hymn number 251 is " My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness ", which is based on the Magnificat and hymn 419 is " For All the Faithful Women " in which the first stanza includes: " We honor faithful Mary, fair maiden, full of grace ".

The service included a specially commissioned hymn, " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and getteth understanding ".

Diehl's index to a large number of hymnals from 1900 to 1966 indicates that only one hymnal included it: the 1940 edition of The Church Hymnal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church ( hymn no.

However, the odal hymn as used by others has a stronger unity among its parts, and Coleridge believed in writing poetry that was unified organically.

In 1961, Jaap Valkhoff wrote the lyrics which became popular among Feyenoord supporters who adopted the song as their unofficial hymn.

The accretion of legends around Joseph of Arimathea in Britain, encapsulated by the poem hymn of William Blake And did those feet in ancient time held as " an almost secret yet passionately held article of faith among certain otherwise quite orthodox Christians ", was critically examined by A. W. Smith in 1989.

His works include an oratorio Rebekah, The Lord is King ( Psalm 97 ), many services and anthems, and 246 hymn tunes ( published in 1897 in one volume ), as well as some partsongs ( among them the popular Sweet and Low ), and some pieces for the pipe organ.

This still places the older Homeric Hymns among the oldest monuments of Greek literature ; but although most of them were composed in the seventh and sixth centuries, a few may be Hellenistic, and the Hymn to Ares might be a late pagan work, inserted when it was observed that a hymn to Ares was lacking.

It influenced much of the poetry of the age, among others, that of the great hymn writer Hans Adolph Brorson.

After the expulsion of the Islamic rule from Spain during the reconquista which ended by 1492, many prominent rabbis found their way to Safed, among them the Kabbalists Isaac Luria and Moshe Kordovero ; Joseph Caro, the author of the Shulchan Aruch and Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, composer of the Sabbath hymn " Lecha Dodi ".

Of the works attributed to him only about fifty survive, among which are two complete masses, three sets of connected mass sections, fourteen individual mass sections, twelve complete isorhythmic motets ( including the famous one which combines the hymn Veni creator spiritus and the sequence Veni sancte spiritus, and the less well-known Albanus roseo rutilat mentioned above ), as well as twenty-seven separate settings of various liturgical texts, including three Magnificats and seven settings of Marian antiphons, such as Alma redemptoris Mater and Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae.

The hymn book was never widely used in churches outside the UK, but there is some renewed interest in it among Reformed Baptists as devotional poetry.

Thus, it is believed by some authors he promoted Latin sacred music for use during the eucharistic worship and composed a number of liturgical hymns, among which some twentieth-century scholars number the major Latin Christian hymn of praise, Te Deum, traditionally attributed to Saints Ambrose and Augustine.

Though her hymn writing declined in later years, Crosby was active in speaking engagements and missionary work among America's urban poor almost until she died.

He created a national hymn, a flag, wrote a constitution, appointed ministers of agriculture, education, and defense ( among other offices ), and had coins minted for his kingdom.

( Note: This version is from The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1904 ), edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, who noted, " From a copy of this hymn as first printed on slips for distribution among the Concord people at the celebration of the completion of the monument on the battle-ground, I note the differences from the poem here given as finally revised by Mr. Emerson in the Selected Poems.

The " Huron Carol " ( or " Twas in the Moon of Wintertime ") is a Canadian Christmas hymn ( Canada's oldest Christmas song ), written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada.

During the 20th century, the harsh Lutheranism associated with Wallin was being increasingly scorned in Sweden as being oppressive and guilt stricken, and this trend in combination with increased secularization has diminished his reputation ; today he is remembered for merely those hymns still in use in Swedish Churches, the traditional Christmas hymn " Var hälsad, sköna morgonstund " among them.

Johannes Maas, a leader in the faith movement, commented on this hymn, " The words of this hymn are among the most profound, inspiring, encouraging, sacred, devotional, and precious words ever penned.

Nie zapomnisz nigdy “ You'll never forget ” form 1994 was a collection of the greatest hits and some new songs, among which “ It ’ s for you my brother ” can be stated as a bands ideological hymn.

Almost forgotten after his death but " re-detected " during the romantic period Brorson is now ranked among the four greatest Danish hymn writers.

Tersteegen is represented in several hymnals internationally: among others in the Danish Roskilde Konvents Psalmebog 1855, and later in Psalmebog 1912 with one hymn ( no.

1836 ), among which is the well-known beautiful hymn, which Mendelssohn set to music, Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat.

On Thursdays, students conduct hymn practice in the chapel, students speak Swahili, fish is served during dinner, among other activities.

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, Qambel Maran, a collection of Syriac chants in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church ; it includes the hymn Awun d ’ wasmayya, i. e., the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the Pater Noster, compositions by St. Ephrem the Syrian ( notably the acrostic hymn Iso maaran m ’ siha on the name Iso M ' siha, i. e., Jesus the Messiah ), and the Syriac translation Sabbah lesan of the Latin hymn Pange Lingua by St. Thomas Aquinas ; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in oral tradition ; among the singers is Fr.