At
Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
-
Thomas Tusser
’T was the night before Christmas, when all through
the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads
-Clement
Clarke Moore, A
Visit From St. Nicholas
Christmas is here:
Winds whistle shrill,
Icy and chill.
Little care we;
Little we fear
Weather without,
Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It
is good to be children sometimes, and never better
than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a
Child himself.
- Charles
Dickens |
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At
Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
- William Shakespeare
Calm
on the listening ear of night
Come Heaven’s melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.
- Edmund Hamilton Sears, Christmas
Song
Happy,
happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions
of our childish days; that can recall to the
old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport
the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away,
back to his own fire-side and quiet home!
- Charles Dickens
Some
say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long.
-
William Shakespeare
It
was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up to might,
And now was queen of land and sea.
No sound was heard of clashing wars,
Peace brooded o’er the hushed domain;
Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars
Held undisturbed their ancient reign
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago.
- Alfred
Domett, Christmas Hymn
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