Caedmon Sentence Examples

A modern cross in the churchyard commemorates St Caedmon, the Northumbrian poet (c. 670), who was a monk at the abbey and there died.

It was Caedmon, the cowherd.

Caedmon! all shouted together.

In his safe, warm place in the straw, Caedmon soon fell asleep.

Caedmon, sing for me.

Then Caedmon, with only the cows as his hearers, opened his mouth and began to sing.

So Caedmon was led into the great hall of the abbey.

So she called her clerk, who was a scholar, and bade him write the song, word for word, as it came from Caedmon's lips.

And Caedmon, the poor cowherd of the abbey, was the first great poet of England.