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Read by Tim Graham, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins)
Featuring poems from Robert Herrick, WB Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & many more.
Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as it has morphed into becoming a convenient date for mass marketing and the consumption of excess food, drink and material goods to a now global audience.
But look below the glossy veneer of commercialism and we find a truer meaning, a moral message and guidance that whilst we may all want it watered down a little in these more secular times does contain some truths and principles for us all to enjoy better lives and better relationships with those around us.
In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets bring us everything from the tried and trusted view to the irreverent but mainly focus on their faith that can rejoice at this festival and makes us all part of the human race, its ideals and its joys.
In this compilation -
1 - Fifty Shades of Christmas - An Introduction |
2 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan |
3 - Nativity by John Donne |
4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths |
5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery |
6 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell |
7 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart |
9 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale |
10 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling |
11 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere |
12 - Carol by Ben Jonson |
13 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge |
14 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton |
15 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi |
16 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling |
17 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick |
18 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland |
19 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell |
20 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy |
21 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan |
22 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan |
23 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan |
24 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy |
25 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti |
26 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy |
27 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore |
28 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott |
29 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
30 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton |
31 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats |
32 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan |
33 - Joseph by G K Chesterton |
34 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire |
35 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan |
36 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle |
37 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson |
38 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith |
39 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay |
40 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke |
41 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth |
42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray |
43 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson |
44 - Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson |
45 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton |
46 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson |
47 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
48 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick |
49 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson |
50 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
51 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson |