Hymns of the Eastern Church

About this book

John Mason Neale's celebrated translations of Greek hymns, first published in 1862. Neale, a leading figure of the Oxford Movement, drew on the service books of the Eastern church to give English worship such pieces as 'Art Thou Weary?' and 'The Day of Resurrection.' The versions are noted for their faithfulness and their singable, stately English.

Contents

1. Preface to First Edition
2. Preface to Second Edition
3. Preface to Third Edition
4. Rhyme and Rhythm
5. Strophic Forms: Hirmos and Troparion 🔒
6. The Ode 🔒
7. The Canon 🔒
8. The Greek Ode and the Latin Sequence 🔒
9. Books containing Greek Hymns 🔒
10. Epochs of Greek Ecclesiastical Poetry 🔒
11. First Epoch 🔒
12. S. Anatolius 🔒
13. Stichera for a Sunday of the First Tone 🔒
14. Evening Hymn 🔒
15. Stichera at Vespers, S. Stephen's Day 🔒
16. Heri Mundus Exultavit 🔒
17. Stichera for Christmas-tide 🔒
18. Idiomelon for Christmas 🔒
19. Second Epoch 🔒
20. S. Andrew of Crete 🔒
21. Stichera for Great Thursday 🔒
22. Troparia for Palm Sunday 🔒
23. The Great Canon 🔒
24. Stichera for the Second Week of the Great Fast 🔒
25. Meso-Pentecost 🔒
26. S. Germanicus 🔒
27. A Sunday in the Week of the First Tone 🔒
28. S. John Damascene 🔒
29. Canon for Easter Day 🔒
30. Ode 1: 'Tis the Day of Resurrection 🔒
31. Ode 3: Come, and let us drink of that New River 🔒
32. Ode 4: Stand on thy watch-tower, Habakkuk the Seer 🔒
33. Ode 5: Let us rise in early morning 🔒
34. Ode 6: Into the earth's lowest parts descending 🔒
35. Ode 7: Who from the fiery furnace saved the Three 🔒
36. Ode 8: Thou hallowed chosen morn of praise 🔒
37. Ode 9: Thou New Jerusalem, arise and shine 🔒
38. The Stichera of the Last Kiss 🔒
39. Idiomela for All Saints 🔒
40. Ode 1: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain 🔒
41. Ode 3: On the rock of Thy Commandments 🔒
42. Ode 4: Christ, we turn our eyes to Thee 🔒
43. Ode 5: Thee, O Christ, we, very early rising 🔒
44. S. Cosmas, the Melodist 🔒
45. Ode 1: Christ is born! Tell forth His fame 🔒
46. Ode 3: Him, of the Father's very Essence 🔒
47. Ode 4: Rod of the Root of Jesse 🔒
48. Ode 5: Father of Peace, and God of Consolation 🔒
49. Ode 6: As Jonah, issuing from his three days' tomb 🔒
50. Ode 7: The Holy Children boldly stand 🔒
51. Ode 8: The dewy freshness from the furnace flings 🔒
52. Ode 9: O Wondrous Mystery, Full of Passing Grace 🔒
53. Cento on the Transfiguration 🔒
54. S. Tarasius 🔒
55. S. Theophanes 🔒
56. Idiomela on Friday of Tyrophagus 🔒
57. Stichera at the First Vespers of Cheese Sunday (Quinquagesima): “Adam's Complaint” 🔒
58. Theodore of the Studium 🔒
59. Canon for Apocreos 🔒
60. Ode 1: That fearful day, that day of speechless dread 🔒
61. Ode 3: God Comes;--and Who Shall Stand Before His Fear? 🔒
62. Ode 4: The Day is Near, the Judgment is at Hand 🔒
63. Ode 9: The Lord draws nigh, the righteous Throne's Assessor 🔒
64. Canon for Orthodoxy Sunday 🔒
65. S. Methodius I 🔒
66. Idiomela for a Sunday of the Fourth Tone 🔒
67. S. Joseph of the Studium 🔒
68. Sunday of the Prodigal Son 🔒
69. Let Our Choir New Anthems Raise 🔒
70. And Wilt Thou Pardon, Lord 🔒
71. Stars of the Morning 🔒
72. Ode 1: After Three Days Thou Didst Rise 🔒
73. Ode 3: Exalt, Exalt, the Heavenly Gates 🔒
74. Ode 4: Jesus, Lord of Life Eternal 🔒
75. Ode 5: Now that Death by death hath found its ending 🔒
76. Ode 6: Rain down, ye heav'ns, eternal bliss 🔒
77. Ode 7: Wafting Him up on high 🔒
78. Ode 8: Of twofold natures, Christ, the Giver 🔒
79. Ode 9: Holy gift, surpassing comprehension 🔒
80. Jesus, Name all Names Above 🔒
81. Metrophanes of Smyrna 🔒
82. O Unity of Threefold Light 🔒
83. Euthymius 🔒
84. Leo VI 🔒
85. John Mauropus 🔒
86. S. Stephen the Sabaite 🔒
87. Idiomela in the Week of the First Oblique Tone 🔒
88. The Pilgrims of Jesus 🔒
89. The Return Home 🔒