Poetry
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Anonymous – Silent Night
The Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night was originally the German, Stille Nacht, heilige Nachtas (1818) by Franz Xaver Gruber. Translation in The United…
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Anonymous – The First Noel
The First Noel is a traditional Christmas carol, originally titled “The First Nowell.” Lyrics retrieved from Carols, Old and New (1879).Noel is an early…
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Anonymous – The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to mea Partridge in a Pear Tree. On the Second…
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Anonymous – The Wassail Song
Here we come a-wassailingAmong the leaves so green,Here we come a-wanderingSo fair to be seen.Love and joy come to youAnd…
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Anonymous – We Three Kings
We Three Kings of Orient are,Bearing gifts we traverse afar,Field and fountain,Moor and mountain,Following yonder star.ChorusO Star of wonder, Star…
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Sherwood Anderson – Evening Song
My song will rest while I rest. I struggle along. I’ll get back to the corn andthe open fields. Don’t…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – After the Rain
THE rain has ceased, and in my roomThe sunshine pours an airy flood;And on the church’s dizzy vaneThe ancient cross…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – A Touch of Nature
When first the crocus thrusts its point of goldUp through the still snow-drifted garden mould,And folded green things in dim…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – Destiny
Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed downEach with its loveliness as with a crown,Drooped in a florist’s window in…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – Echo-Song
I. WHO can say where Echo dwells?In some mountain-cave methinks,Where the white owl sits and blinks;Or in deep sequestered dells,Where…
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