The Poet’s Calendar (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
Poems about carols (21 Poems)
WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Vogelweid the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers. ...
Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of ...
Apology (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races ...
THE VIOLET. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
UPON the mead a violet stood, Retiring, and of modest mood, In truth, a violet fair. Then came a youthful ...
In the Joy of Sharing His Story (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Each year, Advent and Christmas joy in the sharing of his story God, the Christ-child, love Emmanuel, come to earth ...
Heralding a Savior (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The choir of angels singing with joy for all heralding a savior come to one and all Across the night ...
As Micah Prophesied (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In that night in Bethlehem while the angels sang the shepherds on the hillside the babe, the son, born as ...
Angels Singing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On that cold night while the shepherds watched their sheep angels singing, across the sky of God, of Love come ...
Emmanuel (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the awakening the moving from Advent to Christmas the fact of the fulfillment Emmanuel born in Bethlehem God, come ...
To the Humble Shepherds (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The angels proclaimed Advent, the coming of the Christ-child that Christmas night so long ago singing in the heavens to ...
In their Winter Coats (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Warm in their new winter coats in the backseat on the way to Gramma's three angels dreaming Christmas carols on ...
Comforting Words, Melodies (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At the start of the holiday season after fall, before winter leading into Advent comforting words, melodies the warm, memory-laden ...
Holiday Ties (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They came out of storage, off the rack around my neck, starting today, thirteen, maybe fourteen ties (or at least ...
Into the Dusk-Charged Air (John Ashbery Poem)
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
WINTER BLUES (Barry Tebb Poems)
For Penny Abraham I wish I had Auden's penchant For going about in carpet slippers Or the late HRH Margaret's ...
A Child’s Christmas In Wales (Dylan Thomas Poems)
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
The Youth By The Brook (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath, And to the waves the wreath consigned-- The waves ...
Bird Sanctuary (Robert William Service Poems)
Between the cliff-rise and the beach A slip of emerald I own; With fig and olive, almond, peach, cherry and ...
My Mother’s Body (Marge Piercy Poems)
1. The dark socket of the year the pit, the cave where the sun lies down and threatens never to ...
Christmas Morn (Claire Nixon Poems)
Cold frosty mornings Ice on window pain Huddle under coats keep the warmth in Tiptoe down the stairs all quiet ...