Tag Archive for: Christmas

If

IF 2235 If c-a-t spelt dog and cow And horse and mouse and heaven, If two plus two made six and nine And twelve and eighty-seven, If "see the man" was all there was To learn Inside my reader, No boy would be as bright as I, In school…

High Life At Christmas

High LIfe at Christmas 2552 When the turkey's on the table, And the mince ple's on the way, An' my plate is filled with ilxens Thet belong to Christmas day, I fergit I'm I'm over eighty, An' about my rheumatiz, An' it seems to me that…

Treasures

Treasures 1769 I count my trensures o'er with care, The little toy that beby knew, A little sock with faded hue, A little lock of golden hair Long years ago this Christmas time: My little one, my all to me, Sat robed in white upon my knee…

Christmas Song

Christmas Song 4954 All joys, I thought, from Christmas fled When good Saint Nicholas drove away Forever in his reindeer sleigh, When last, from my low trundle-bed, I watched the gray east growing red, With heart of feverish eagerness,…

So As By Fire

So As By Fire 2334 There are two equal loves, each passion-strong, And one doth still desire, and one deny Strange war they wage, these twain, their whole life long, For either both must live, or both must die If love-denial prevail and…

The Christmas Guest

THE CHRISTMAS GUEST 4323 Whoso shall come my way this night, By moor or hill or shore, For him the Blessed candles' light, For him the open door (Oh, Mary, this for Thy Son's sake Though mine comes in no more!) My hearth is swept, my Yule…

Annie And Willie’s Prayer

Annie and Willie's Prayer 2664 'Twas the night before Christmas "Good night had been said And Annie and Willie had crept into bed There were tears on their pillows and tears in their And eyes, each little bosom was heaving with sighs For…

The Make-Believe Man

The Make-Believe Man 14710 Dame Nature lights her candles in the caverns of the sky With a twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, and a yawn heigh-ho! And there blows a little cobweb into ev- ery little eve As the footsteps of the a-tick-a-tocking by…

New Year’s Eve

New Year's Eve 837 If you're waking, call me early, call me early mother deur, For I would see the run rise upon the glad now your: It is the last New Year that I shall ever see; Then you may lay me low in the wold and think no more of me Tonight…

The Mistletoe Bough

The Mistletoe Bough 2984 The mistletoe hung in the castle hall The holly branch shone on the old oak wall: And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay And keeping their Christmas holy day: The baron beheld with a father's pride His beautiful…

Christmas Greeting

Christmas Greeting 5543 Christmas bells are ringing: Angel volces singing "Peace on earth, good will to man" Christmas praises sounding: Christmas joys abounding: Take and give what joy you can! Giving or receiving Christmas gifts are…

Little Jim

Little Jim 2397 You're right, not every time you'll meet a million- aire like me That planks you down a check for your Xmas char- fty It's downright joy for me to give, but they've more sense, they say The other fellows, but you see somehow…

Christmas Night

CHRISTMAS NIGHT 5433 At last Thou art come, little Savior And Thine angels fill midnight with song: Thou art come to us, gentle Creator! Whom Thy creatures have sighed for so long

Christmas Gifts

Christmas Gifts 3842 "What did you get for Christmas?" "Oh, nothing much," he said "Nothing but a picture book, And a pair of skates and a sled "And a new fur cap, and a muffler, And a train of cars, and a ball, And a top, and a game,…

White Chrysanthemums

WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS 4101 Born of the clouds and darkness, Of the frost and early snow: When the summer blooms have faded, The beautiful Christ flowers blow All through the budding springtime, All through the summer's heat, All through…

Chimes Of Trinity

Chimes of Trinity 2653 In a city grand and gay, where the mighty throng hold sway Stands a church whose spire points toward the sky And down in the belfry towar oft the chimes have toll'd the hour And many saddened hearts were charmed while…

Climate Confusion

Climate Confusion 4364 Christmas is a-comin' Dat's what the white folks say But de sun it keep a-shinin' Jes de same as if 'twas May An' I specks to see de roses An' the butterfiles an' bees, An' de early buds a burstin', 'Stid o' presents…

A Christmas Carol

A CHRISTMAS CAROL 1984 There's a song in the air! There's a star in the sky! There's a mother's deep prayer And a Baby's low cry! And the star rains its flre while the Beautiful sing For the manger of Bethlehem Cradles a King There's a tumult…