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

Thomas Hardy, GK Chesterton, Alfred Tennyson, Ben Jonson, EMILY DICKINSON, John Clark, John Milton, Robert Herrick, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Southwell, Sara Teasdale, WB Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray

Narrator Ghizela Rowe

Publisher: The Copyright Group

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Summary

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: about 1 hour (00:59:51)
Publishing date: 2014-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —