Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse

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Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year but this volume is not just for Christmas! For the religious amongst us this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet; it’s acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for their own wares. Most religions celebrate their founders but Christianity seems somehow to have lost possession of one of its key rituals in an ever more secular West. The spread of globalisation seems to have hindered rather than helped the true meaning of the festival. Children today are much more interested in what presents they might receive than any spiritual message. As parents too, most of us buy into this and indulge our offspring rather than instil the underlying themes and aims of the festival’s meaning common to us all. In this collection we rely on the words and wisdom of such fine poets as John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Sheehan, Wordsworth, Longfellow and a whole host of others to absorb us in a Christmas time of hope and togetherness. The experiences and memories they share with us speak of a time, of a world that did have a common purpose and an ambition to share good fortune with everyone. This selection is read for you by Ghizela Rowe and Tim Graham. 01 - Christmas - An Introroduction 02 - A Nativity By Rudyard Kipling 03 - A Visit From St Nicholas ( (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) By Clement Moore 04 - The Oxen By Thomas Hardy 05 - The Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 06 - Christmas Eve By Christina Rossetti 07 - On The Morning Of Christs Nativity By John Milton 08 - The Burning Babe By Robert Southwell 09 - The Nativity Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ By Christopher Smart 10 - The Mother Of God By William Butler Yeats 11 - The House Of Christmas By GK Chesterton 12 - The Masque Of Christmas By Ben Jonson 13 - The Old Year By John Clare 14 - Upon Christ His Birth By Sir John Suckling 15 - An Ode Of The Birth Of Our Saviour By Robert Herrick 16 - A Christmas Carol By Aubrey De Vere 17 - A Christmas Carol By GK Chesterton 18 - A Christmas Carol By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 19 - Christmas Poem By Robert Herrick 20 - Ceremonies For Christmas By Robert Herrick 21 - Christmas Carol By Sara Teasdale 22 - The Mahogany Tree By William Makepeace Thackeray 23 - Minstrels A Christmas Poem By William Wordsworth 24 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) By Sir Walter Scott TIM 25 - Joseph by GK Chesterton 26 - The Nativity By Henry Vaughan 27 - Nativity By John Donne 28 - The Beautiful Mother By Jacopone Da Todi 29 - New Prince New Pomp By Robert Southwell 30 - In The Bleak Midwinter By Christina Rossetti 31 - Winters Naked Wood By Daniel Sheehan 32 - Christmas At Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson 33 - No Mercy Here By Daniel Sheehan 34 - A Christmas Ghost Story By Thomas Hardy 35 - God Rest By Daniel Sheehan 36 - December Sales Drive By Daniel Sheehan 37 - Christmas For Atheists By Daniel Sheehan 38 - Carol By Ben Jonson 39 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman By Emily Dickinson 40 - T'Was Just This Time Last Year I Died By Emily Dickinson 41 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer By Emily Dickinson 42 - Christmas Fancies By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 43 - Ring Out Wild Bells Christmas Poem By Alfred lord Tennyson 44 - Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Duration - 59m. Author - Thomas Hardy. Narrator - Ghizela Rowe. Published Date - Tuesday, 31 January 2023.

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English