A Christmas Carol

Christina Rossetti * Track #122 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti

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This carol, more generally known by its first line ‘In the bleak mid-winter’, is one of the most popular in the Western world. Usually set to a gentle, minor-key melody, it is a staple of Christmas carol services.

As a poem it works at a simple level, easy to understand. It is also beautifully craf...

A Christmas Carol Annotated

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.

Enough for Him whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.

Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Throng'd the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped her Beloved
With a kiss.

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,--
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.

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