Category: Poetry
Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Old or antiquated spellings have been preserved. Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Old or antiquated spellings have...
2. Part 2Down from heaven, from heaven so high, Of angels there came a great company, With mirth and joy and great solemnity, They sang _terli_, _terlow_; So merrily the shepherds their...
3. Part 3Immensity, cloistered in thy dear womb, Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment; There He hath made Himself to His intent, Weak enough now into our world to come: But oh! for t...
4. Part 4But wisest Fate says no, This must not yet be so, The Babe lies yet in smiling infancy, That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss; So both Himself and us to glorify: Yet fir...
5. Part 5Sweet, harmless live{r}s! on whose holy leisure, Waits innocence and pleasure; Whose leaders to those pastures and clear springs Were patriarchs, saints, and kings; How happen’d...
6. Part 6It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary— ‘Oh! never sin and want and woe this earth will leave, And the bells but...
7. Part 7Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snow-flake; that’s fairly mixed With,...
8. Part 8So now is come our joyful’st feast, Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your for...
9. Part 9O te laudum millibus Laudo, laudo, laudo; Tantis mirabilibus Plaudo, plaudo, plaudo: Gloria, sit gloria, Amanti memoria Domino in altis: Cui testimonia Dantur et praeconia Coeli...