Christmas Poetry - A Season In Verse: Classic Xmas poems that make the perfect Christmas gift

Thomas Hardy · GK Chesterton · Alfred Lord Tennyson · Ben Jonson · Emily Dickinson · John Clare · John Milton · Robert Herrick · Robert Louis Stevenson · Robert Southwell · Sara Teasdale · WB Yeats · William Makepeace Thackeray

Jan 2014 · Copyright Group · Narrated by Ghizela Rowe

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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

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