Tag: English
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‘Noel: Christmas Eve 1913’ by Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
A frosty Christmas Eve when the stars were shining Fared I forth alone
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‘The Oxen’ by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in hearthside ease. 4We pictured the meek mild creatures whereThey dwelt in their strawy pen,Nor did it occur to one of us thereTo doubt they were kneeling then. 8So fair a fancy…
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‘In Memoriam: 38′ by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
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.
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‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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‘Psalm 117′ by Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621)
Sing all that share This earthly ball
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‘Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness’ by John Donne (1571-1631)
Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before. 5Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who…
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‘Shadows’ by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
All that matters is to be at one with the living God to be a creature in the house of the God of Life. Like a cat asleep on a chair at peace, in peace …
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‘The Sick Rose’ by William Blake (1757-1827)
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. Considering the Poem A rose, a worm, a night, a storm, a bed – a life destroyed: with these ideas, William…
Christian Poetry Considered 