Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Voices in the Mist By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Monday, October 20, 2008 12:25 No CommentsVoices in the Mist
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
Four voices of four hamlets round,
From far and near, on mead and moor,
Swell out and fail, as if a door
Were shut between me [...]
Sonnet at Christmas By Allen Tate
Monday, October 20, 2008 12:22 No CommentsSonnet at Christmas
By Allen Tate
This is the day
His hour of life draws near,
Let me get ready from head to foot for it
Most handily with eyes to pick the year
For small feed to reward a feathered wit.
Some men would see it an epiphany
At ease, at food and drink, others at chase
Yet I, stung lassitude, with [...]
True Meaning of Christmas by Brian K. Walters
Monday, October 20, 2008 10:57 No CommentsTrue Meaning of Christmas
by Brian K. Walters
In todays day and time,
it’s easy to lose sight,
of the true meaning of Christmas
and one special night.
When we go shopping,
We say “How much will it cost?”
Then the true meaning of Christmas,
Somehow becomes lost.
Amidst the tinsel, glitter
And ribbons of gold,
We forget about the child,
born on a night so [...]
The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:41 No CommentsThe Three Kings
Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by day,
For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.
The star was so beautiful, large and clear,
That all the other stars of the sky
Became a white mist in [...]
The Holy Night by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:20 No CommentsThe Holy Night
We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem;
The dumb kine from their fodder turning them,
Softened their horn’d faces,
To almost human gazes
Toward the newly Born:
The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks
Brought visionary looks,
As yet in their astonished hearing rung
The strange sweet angel-tongue:
The magi of the East, in sandals worn,
Knelt reverent, sweeping round,
With long pale [...]
Star Of My Heart by Vachel Lindsay
Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:06 No CommentsStar Of My Heart
Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
Where Time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah’s child
Across this dreamland lone and wild,
Then will I speak this prayer unsaid,
And [...]
Christmas Everywhere by Phillips Brooks
Saturday, October 18, 2008 10:40 No CommentsChristmas Everywhere
EVERYWHERE, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine,
Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine,
Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white,
Christmas where cornfields stand sunny and bright.
Christmas where children are hopeful and gay,
Christmas where old men are patient and gray,
Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight,
Broods o’re [...]
Christmas Carol by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:50 No CommentsChristmas Carol
Ring out, ye bells!
All Nature swells
With gladness at the wondrous story, –
The world was lorn,
But Christ is born
To change our sadness into glory.
Sing, earthlings, sing!
To-night a King
Hath come from heaven’s high throne to bless us.
The outstretched hand
O’er all the land
Is raised in pity to caress us.
Come at his call;
Be joyful all;
Away with mourning and [...]
A Christmas Carol by Josiah Gilbert Holland
Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:41 No CommentsA Christmas Carol
There’s a song in the air!
There’s a star in the sky!
There’s a mother’s deep prayer
And a baby’s low cry!
And the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king.
There’s a tumult of joy
O’er the wonderful birth,
For the virgin’s sweet boy
Is the Lord of the earth.
Ay! the star [...]
Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
Friday, October 17, 2008 21:22 No CommentsChristmas Carol
THE kings they came from out the south,
All dressed in ermine fine,
They bore Him gold and chrysoprase,
And gifts of precious wine.
The shepherds came from out the north,
Their coats were brown and old,
They brought Him little new-born lambs —
They had not any gold.
The wise-men came from out the east,
And they were wrapped in white;
The [...]
