Christmas poems

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Christmas Roses

© Francis William Bourdillon

White-faced Winter Roses,

O'er the grave I plant you

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Pilgrims To The East

© Katharine Tynan

This Christmas-time my son will come,
  God willing, to the Holy Place
And by the manger's little room
  Will bend his knee and bow his face,
Eager, with shepherds and with kings,
For to behold the Holy Things.

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Love and Age

© Thomas Love Peacock

I play'd with you 'mid cowslips blowing,

 When I was six and you were four;

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Lo gens temps de pascor

© Bernard de Ventadorn

Bel Vezer, si no fos
mos enans totz en vos
laissat agra chansos
per mal dels enoyos.

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Christmas Song of the Old Children

© George MacDonald

Well for youth to seek the strong,
Beautiful, and brave!
We, the old, who walk along
Gently to the grave,
Only pay our court to thee,
Child of all Eternity!

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A Christmas Hymn

© Joseph Furphy

The Seraph-song of morning's prime
That hail'd Messiah's birth,
The charter of a coming time
When Love shall rule the earth,
Rings from yon far Judaean hill —

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Eclogue

© John Donne

ALLOPHANES  FINDING  IDIOS  IN  THE  COUNTRY  IN
  CHRISTMAS TIME,  REPREHENDS  HIS  ABSENCE
  FROM COURT, AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL
  OF  SOMERSET ;  IDIOS  GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF
  HIS  PURPOSE  THEREIN,  AND  OF HIS  ACTIONS
  THERE.

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The Blessed Day

© Louisa May Alcott

"What shall little children bring

  On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?

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The Gypsy

© Edward Thomas

A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:

Vans were drawn up on wastes, women trailed to the fair.

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Marmion: Introduction to Canto VI.

© Sir Walter Scott

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,

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Thoughts Of Christmas-Day In India

© Letitia Elizabeth Landon

IT is Christmas, and the sunshine
Lies golden on the fields,
And flowers of white and purple
Yonder fragrant creeper yields.

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Christmas Hymn

© Eugene Field

Sing, Christmas bells!

Say to the earth this is the morn

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Cultural Exchange

© Langston Hughes

Pushcarts fold and unfold
In a supermarket sea.
And we better find out, mama,
Where is the colored laundromat
Since we move dup to Mount Vernon.

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Christmas, 1873

© George MacDonald

Christmas-Days are still in store:-
Will they change-steal faded hither?
Or come fresh as heretofore,
Summering all our winter weather?

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Smells

© Christopher Morley

WHY is it that the poet tells
So little of the sense of smell?
These are the odors I love well:

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A Christmas Carol

© George MacDonald

Babe Jesus lay in Mary's lap,
The sun shone in his hair;
And this was how she saw, mayhap,
The crown already there.

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Dorchester Amphitheatre .

© John Kenyon

By Rome's old amphitheatre I stood,

  Still pretty perfect, on the Weymouth road,

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At Nine Of The Night

© Charles Causley

At nine of the night I opened my door
That stands midway between moor and moor,
And all around me, silver-bright,
I saw that the world had turned to white.

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The Soldier's Christmas Eve

© Anonymous

In a southern forest gloomy and old,

So lately the scene of a terrible fight,

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Christmas In The Heart

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

The snow lies deep upon the ground,

  And winter's brightness all around